Deriving albedo from coupled MERIS and MODIS surface products

Feng Gao; Crystal Schaaf; Yufang Jin; Wolfgang Lucht; Alan Strahler

Deriving albedo from coupled MERIS and MODIS surface products

Feng Gao
, Crystal Schaaf
, Yufang Jin
, Wolfgang Lucht
, Alan Strahler

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Boston University
University of Maryland, College Park
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

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Abstract

MERIS Level 2 surface reflectance products are' now available to the scientific community. This paper demonstrates the production of MERIS-derived surface albedo and Nadir Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function (BRDF) adjusted reflectances by coupling the MERIS data with MODIS BRDF products. Initial efforts rely on the specification of surface anisotropy as provided by the global MODIS BRDF product for a first guess of the shape of the BRDF and then make use all of the coincidently available, partially atmospherically corrected, cloud cleared, MERIS observations to generate MERIS-derived BRDF and surface albedo quantities for each location. Comparisons between MODIS (aerosol-corrected) and MERIS (not-yet aerosol-corrected) surface values from April and May 2003 are also presented for case studies in Spain and California as well as preliminary comparisons with field data from the Devil's Rock Surfrad/BSRN site.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	191-206
Number of pages	16
Journal	European Space Agency, (Special Publication) ESA SP
Issue number	549
State	Published - 2004
Event	MERIS User Workshop - Frascati, Italy Duration: Nov 10 2003 → Nov 13 2003

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Aerospace Engineering
Space and Planetary Science

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Deriving albedo from coupled MERIS and MODIS surface products

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