Surface reflectance retrieval from satellite and aircraft sensors: Results of sensor and algorithm comparisons during FIFE
- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD (United States)
- Hughes-STX Corp., Lanham, MD (United States)
This work is part of the First International Satellite Land Surface Climatology Project (ISLSCP) Field Experiment (FIFE), an international land-surface-atmosphere experiment aimed at improving the way climate models represent energy, water, heat, and carbon exchanges, and improving the utilization of satellite based remote sensing to monitor such parameters. This paper reports on comparison of measurement systems which were deployed to measure surface reflectance factors, from aircraft or satellites. These instruments look over the general range of 0.4 to 2.5[mu]m. Instruments studied include Landsat 5 thematic mapper (TM), the SPOT 1 high-resolution visible sensor (HRV) 1, the NS001 thematic mapper simulator, and the modular multispectral radiometers (MMRs). The study looked at the radiometric consistency of the different instruments, and the adequacy of the atmospheric correction routines applied to data analysis.
- OSTI ID:
- 6288241
- Journal Information:
- Journal of Geophysical Research; (United States), Vol. 97:D17; ISSN 0148-0227
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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