Title :
MODIS operational bidirectional reflectance and albedo products
Author :
Schaaf, Crystal B. ; Strahler, Alan H. ; Gao, Feng ; Lucht, Wolfgang ; Li, Xiaowen ; Zhang, Xiaoyang ; Jin, Yufang ; Tsvetsinskaya, Elena ; Muller, Jan-Peter ; Lewis, Philip ; Barnsley, Michael ; Roberts, Gareth ; Doll, Christopher ; Liang, Shunlin ; Priv
Author_Institution :
Center for Remote Sensing, Boston Univ., MA, USA
Abstract :
The MODIS BRDF and albedo science data product (MOD43B) has been providing provisional quality products to the science community since October 2000. The operational algorithm relies on multi-date MODIS observations and a semi-empirical kernel-based bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF) model to provide global one kilometer measures of BRDF, albedo (spectral and broadband) and nadir BRDF-adjusted reflectance (NBAR)
Keywords :
albedo; remote sensing; MOD43B; MODIS products; NBAR; albedo; bidirectional reflectance; nadir BRDF-adjusted reflectance; operational algorithm; science data product; semi-empirical kernel-based model; Bidirectional control; Earth; Geometry; Kernel; Land surface; MODIS; Remote sensing; Satellites; Scattering; Solid modeling;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2001. IGARSS '01. IEEE 2001 International
Conference_Location :
Sydney, NSW
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7031-7
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2001.977957
