Remotely Sensed Albedo

Albedo is a known and documented phenomenon, defined as the reflectivity of a surface, i.e., the ratio of reflected light energy to incident light energy. It is a dimensionless quantity, used in particular in agro-forestry, urban environment, cryosphere and geology. It is an Essential Climate Variab...

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description Albedo is a known and documented phenomenon, defined as the reflectivity of a surface, i.e., the ratio of reflected light energy to incident light energy. It is a dimensionless quantity, used in particular in agro-forestry, urban environment, cryosphere and geology. It is an Essential Climate Variable (ECV), deemed extremely meaningful to compute the earth heat balance. The albedo of natural surfaces varies largely, especially in the visible, with the lowest values found for water bodies and dense vegetation canopies and the highest values for desert and snow. It also changes with the angular distribution and spectral composition of the incident radiation and with the surface moisture. Satellite observations allow consistent measuring of the surface albedo at continental scale over a short period of time. Long-term series of surface albedo are good indicators of climate change, especially over glaciers and polar caps. On the other hand, the albedo of bare soil provides a good diagnostic of their degradation. The reliability of satellite albedo is verified against ground-based radiometers and UAV, which also serves to calibrate the instruments embarked on space-borne observing systems and check the quality of the atmospheric correction.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-684052024-03-28T03:30:34Z Remotely Sensed Albedo Liang, Shunlin Roujean, Jean-Louis He, Tao surface albedo urbanization vegetation variation climate change DMSP albedo land use remote sensing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles vegetation indices snow climate Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) landscape consumer-grade camera radiometric calibration sea ice VIIRS Arctic PROMICE GC-NET validation AVHRR BRDF MODIS VJB LTDR directional correction spatial representativeness semivariogram Landsat HLS Sentinel 2 SURFRAD OzFlux directional hemispherical reflectance bi-hemispherical reflectance tower albedometer CGLS MISR upscaling bare soil albedo MODIS albedo contiguous United States soil line Landsat albedo soil moisture land surface albedo time series high spatio-temporal resolution EnKF spectral unmixing empirical modeling linear endmember forest cover forest management forest structure BRDF/Albedo NDSI Snow Cover n/a thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research and information: general thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCV Economics of specific sectors::KCVG Environmental economics Albedo is a known and documented phenomenon, defined as the reflectivity of a surface, i.e., the ratio of reflected light energy to incident light energy. It is a dimensionless quantity, used in particular in agro-forestry, urban environment, cryosphere and geology. It is an Essential Climate Variable (ECV), deemed extremely meaningful to compute the earth heat balance. The albedo of natural surfaces varies largely, especially in the visible, with the lowest values found for water bodies and dense vegetation canopies and the highest values for desert and snow. It also changes with the angular distribution and spectral composition of the incident radiation and with the surface moisture. Satellite observations allow consistent measuring of the surface albedo at continental scale over a short period of time. Long-term series of surface albedo are good indicators of climate change, especially over glaciers and polar caps. On the other hand, the albedo of bare soil provides a good diagnostic of their degradation. The reliability of satellite albedo is verified against ground-based radiometers and UAV, which also serves to calibrate the instruments embarked on space-borne observing systems and check the quality of the atmospheric correction. 2021-05-01T15:09:02Z 2021-05-01T15:09:02Z 2021 book ONIX_20210501_9783039439416_151 9783039439416 9783039439423 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/68405 eng application/octet-stream Attribution 4.0 International https://mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/3421 https://mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/3421 MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 10.3390/books978-3-03943-942-3 10.3390/books978-3-03943-942-3 46cabcaa-dd94-4bfe-87b4-55023c1b36d0 9783039439416 9783039439423 250 Basel, Switzerland open access
spellingShingle surface albedo
urbanization
vegetation variation
climate change
DMSP
albedo
land use
remote sensing
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
vegetation indices
snow
climate
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)
landscape
consumer-grade camera
radiometric calibration
sea ice
VIIRS
Arctic
PROMICE
GC-NET
validation
AVHRR
BRDF
MODIS
VJB
LTDR
directional correction
spatial representativeness
semivariogram
Landsat
HLS
Sentinel 2
SURFRAD
OzFlux
directional hemispherical reflectance
bi-hemispherical reflectance
tower albedometer
CGLS
MISR
upscaling
bare soil albedo
MODIS albedo
contiguous United States
soil line
Landsat albedo
soil moisture
land surface albedo
time series
high spatio-temporal resolution
EnKF
spectral unmixing
empirical modeling
linear endmember
forest cover
forest management
forest structure
BRDF/Albedo
NDSI Snow Cover
n/a
thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research and information: general
thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCV Economics of specific sectors::KCVG Environmental economics
Remotely Sensed Albedo
title Remotely Sensed Albedo
title_full Remotely Sensed Albedo
title_fullStr Remotely Sensed Albedo
title_full_unstemmed Remotely Sensed Albedo
title_short Remotely Sensed Albedo
title_sort remotely sensed albedo
topic surface albedo
urbanization
vegetation variation
climate change
DMSP
albedo
land use
remote sensing
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
vegetation indices
snow
climate
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)
landscape
consumer-grade camera
radiometric calibration
sea ice
VIIRS
Arctic
PROMICE
GC-NET
validation
AVHRR
BRDF
MODIS
VJB
LTDR
directional correction
spatial representativeness
semivariogram
Landsat
HLS
Sentinel 2
SURFRAD
OzFlux
directional hemispherical reflectance
bi-hemispherical reflectance
tower albedometer
CGLS
MISR
upscaling
bare soil albedo
MODIS albedo
contiguous United States
soil line
Landsat albedo
soil moisture
land surface albedo
time series
high spatio-temporal resolution
EnKF
spectral unmixing
empirical modeling
linear endmember
forest cover
forest management
forest structure
BRDF/Albedo
NDSI Snow Cover
n/a
thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research and information: general
thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCV Economics of specific sectors::KCVG Environmental economics
topic_facet surface albedo
urbanization
vegetation variation
climate change
DMSP
albedo
land use
remote sensing
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
vegetation indices
snow
climate
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)
landscape
consumer-grade camera
radiometric calibration
sea ice
VIIRS
Arctic
PROMICE
GC-NET
validation
AVHRR
BRDF
MODIS
VJB
LTDR
directional correction
spatial representativeness
semivariogram
Landsat
HLS
Sentinel 2
SURFRAD
OzFlux
directional hemispherical reflectance
bi-hemispherical reflectance
tower albedometer
CGLS
MISR
upscaling
bare soil albedo
MODIS albedo
contiguous United States
soil line
Landsat albedo
soil moisture
land surface albedo
time series
high spatio-temporal resolution
EnKF
spectral unmixing
empirical modeling
linear endmember
forest cover
forest management
forest structure
BRDF/Albedo
NDSI Snow Cover
n/a
thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research and information: general
thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCV Economics of specific sectors::KCVG Environmental economics
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