Reflectance Comparison between Sciamachy and Meris
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In this work we present a comparison of the current SCIAMACHY and MERIS reflectance calibrations at wavelengths between 442 and 885 nm. For that purpose we, firstly, locate all the SCIAMACHY pixels within a given MERIS image and, secondly, we calculate the median and standard deviation of all the MERIS pixels (≈1000) within each SCIAMACHY pixel. Results show that SCIAMACHY underestimates the reflectance by 13% at 442 nm reaching up to 21% at 885 nm as compared to MERIS.
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تاریخ انتشار 2004