Validation of POLDER surface albedo products based on a review of other satellites and climate databases

Author

Hautecoeur, O. ; Roujean, J.-L.

Author_Institution

CNRM / GAME, Toulouse

fYear

2007

fDate

23-28 July 2007

Firstpage

2844

Lastpage

2847

Abstract

This study is devoted to a global verification of the reliability of the POLDER-derived BRDF and albedo products over land surfaces based on an exhaustive review of similar existing products. A global comparison of POLDER albedos is carried on at 0.5 degree resolution with satellite-derived products and Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) models. In general, a large underestimate of the albedos from climate databases are noticed over desert and semi-desert regions. Also, large discrepancies are noticed for snow. NWP albedos show overestimates of 0.4 over mountainous regions, compared to either POLDER or MODIS. Reverse trend is observed at high latitudes for snow beneath forest canopies. As a conclusion, it comes out the multi-angular capabilities offered by POLDER yields a unique tool to estimate surface albedo within an the accuracy required by the users.

Keywords

albedo; atmospheric boundary layer; climatology; remote sensing; snow; topography (Earth); weather forecasting; Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function; Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer; Numerical Weather Prediction models; POLDER surface albedo products; climate databases; forest canopies; land surfaces; mountainous regions; polarization and directionality of Earth reflectances; satellites review; semidesert regions; snow; Atmospheric measurements; Databases; Land surface; MODIS; Predictive models; Satellites; Scattering; Snow; Weather forecasting; Yield estimation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2007. IGARSS 2007. IEEE International

Conference_Location

Barcelona

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1211-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1212-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2007.4423436

Filename

4423436