Radiometric correction of Landsat-8 and Sentinel-2A scenes using drone imagery in synergy with field spectroradiometry

Remote Sensing

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2018, Pages

  Padró, Joan Cristian ^a   Muñoz, Francisco Javier ^b   Ávila, Luis Ángel ^c   Pesquer, Lluís ^a   Pons, Xavier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b HEMAV SL Edifici RDIT   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DEL AZUAY   (Ecuador)

Author keywords

Field spectroradiometry; Landsat 8; MicaSense RedEdge; MSI; OLI; Radiometric correction; Sentinel 2; UAS; Upscaling

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; CONSERVATION; DRONES; INFRARED DEVICES; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; PIXELS; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; REFLECTION;

FIELD SPECTRORADIOMETRY; LANDSAT; MICASENSE REDEDGE; RADIOMETRIC CORRECTIONS; SENTINEL-2; UPSCALING;

SATELLITE IMAGERY;

EID: 85057122793     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs10111687     Document Type: Article

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