Effect of Solar-Cloud-Satellite Geometry on Land Surface Shortwave Radiation Derived from Remotely Sensed Data

Effect of Solar-Cloud-Satellite Geometry on Land Surface Shortwave Radiation Derived from Remotely Sensed Data

Clouds and their associated shadows are major obstacles to most land surface remote sensing applications. Meanwhile, solar-cloud-satellite geometry (SCSG) makes the effect of clouds and shadows on derived land surface biophysical parameters more complicated. However, in most existing studies, the SCSG effect has been frequently neglected although it is pointed out by many works that SCSG effect...

Remotely sensed land-surface energy fluxes

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Modelling directional effects on remotely sensed land surface temperature

Article history: Received 7 May 2016 Received in revised form 10 November 2016 Accepted 13 December 2016 Available online 20 December 2016 Land surface temperature (LST) is a markedly directional variable and its remotely sensedmeasurement may be strongly affected by viewing and illumination geometries. This study proposes the use of LST products collocated in space and time, but obtained with ...

Satellite Calibration and Verification of Remotely Sensed Cloud and Radiation Properties Using MW

Comparisons of Cloud Heights Derived from Satellite and Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Surface Lidar Data

Cloud heights derived from single-channel, satellite infrared data can be relatively uncertain under certain conditions such as overlapped or optically thin clouds. During the daytime, optical depths derived from 0.63 μm visible (VIS) reflectances are used to adjust the altitude of optically thin clouds. Without the adjustment, the cloud heights are significantly underestimated diminishing the ...