Preliminary land surface products from the NASA Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS)

Author

Justice, Chris ; Townshend, John ; Vermote, Eric ; Sohlberg, Rob ; Descloitres, Jacques ; Roy, David ; Hall, Dorothy ; Salomonson, Vince ; Riggs, George ; Huerte, A. ; Didan, Kamel ; Miura, Tomoaki ; Wan, Zhengming ; Strahler, Alan ; Schaaf, Crystal ; Myn

Author_Institution

Virginia Univ., Charlottesville, VA, USA

Volume

3

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

1157

Abstract

Early results are described for some of the land products from MODIS generated in test and evaluation mode prior to operational product release. These products give a first glimpse of the potential of the MODIS instrument for land surface studies. Outline descriptions are provided for the following products: surface reflectance, land surface temperature, vegetation indices, LAI/FPAR, snow and BRDF/albedo. Quality assurance of products conducted by members of the MODIS land team are described. These initial MODIS products show an enhanced capability for moderate-resolution imaging over previously available operational systems

Keywords

geophysical techniques; remote sensing; terrain mapping; vegetation mapping; BRDF; IR; MODIS; Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer; albedo; geophysical measurement technique; infrared; land products; land surface; multispectral remote sensing; optical imaging; satellite remote sensing; snow; surface reflectance; terrain mapping; vegetation; visible; Instruments; Land surface; Land surface temperature; MODIS; NASA; Quality assurance; Reflectivity; Snow; Testing; Vegetation mapping;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2000. Proceedings. IGARSS 2000. IEEE 2000 International

Conference_Location

Honolulu, HI

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6359-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2000.858054

Filename

858054