MISR abstract

Borel, C.C., Gerstl, S.A.W., Tornow, C. (1996). Accurate top of the atmosphere albedo determination from multiple views of the MISR instrument. Proceedings of the SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering: Algorithms for Multispectral and Hyperspectral Imagery II. 2758, 241-51.

Changes in the Earth's surface albedo impact the atmospheric and global energy budget and contribute to global climate change. It is now recognized that multispectral and multi-angular views of the Earth's top of atmosphere (TOA) albedo are necessary to provide information on albedo changes. We describe four semi-empirical bidirectional reflectance factor (BRF) models which are inverted for two and three unknowns. The retrieved BRF parameters are then used to compute the TOA spectral albedo for clear sky conditions. Using this approach we find that the albedo can be computed with better than 1% error in the visible and 1.5% in the near-infrared (NIR) for most surface types

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