Assessment of the consistency among Global Microwave 1 Land Surface Emissivity Products
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16 The goal of this work is to inter-compare four global land surface emissivity products over 17 various land-cover conditions to assess their consistency. The intercompared retrieved land 18 emissivity products were generated over five-year period (2003-2007) using observations from 19 the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer Earth Observing System (AMSR-E), Special 20 Sensor Microwave Imager (SSM/I), The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) 21 Microwave Imager (TMI) and Windsat. First, all products were reprocessed in the same 22 projection and spatial resolution as they were generated from sensors with various 23 configurations. Then, the mean value and standard deviations of monthly emissivity values were 24 calculated for each product to assess the spatial distribution of the consistencies/inconsistencies 25 among the products across the globe. The emissivity products were also compared to soil 26
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