The Earth's climate is largely determined by its energy budget. Since the 1960s, satellite
remote sensing has been used in estimating these energy budget components at both the …

Surface albedo is one of the key controlling geophysical parameters in the surface energy
budget studies, and its temporal and spatial variation is closely related to the global climate …

Land surface broadband albedo is a critical variable for many scientific applications. High-
resolution narrowband satellite observations contain important information that enables us …

Processing the vast amounts of data on the Earth's land surface environment generated by
NASA's and other international satellite programs is a significant challenge. Filling a gap …

This paper presents the general methods and some preliminary results of validating
Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) land surface reflectance and …

Coastal wetlands are main components of the “blue carbon” ecosystems in coastal zones.
Salt-marsh biomass is especially important regarding climate-change mitigation. Generating …

A new methodology for establishing the spatial representativeness of tower albedo
measurements that are routinely used in validation of satellite retrievals from global land …

Land surface albedo is a critical parameter in surface-energy budget studies. Over the past
several decades, many albedo products are generated from remote-sensing data sets. The …

Extreme heat represents a growing threat to public health, especially across the densely
populated, developed landscape of cities. Climate adaptation strategies that aim to manage …

We present a new methodology to generate 30-m resolution land surface albedo using
Landsat surface reflectance and anisotropy information from concurrent MODIS 500-m …