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Journal Title:
ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
Personal Author:
Jia, A. ; Wang, D. ; Liang, S. ; Peng, J. ; Yu, Y.
Jia, A. ; Wang, D. ; Liang, S. ; Peng, J. ; Yu, Y. Less -
NOAA Program & Office:
NESDIS (National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service) ; STAR (Center for Satellite Applications and Research) ; CICS (Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites)
NESDIS (National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service) ; STAR (Center for Satellite Applications and Research) ; CICS (Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites) Less -
Description:
Land surface albedo (LSA) is an essential component of the surface radiation budget, and has been retrieved extensively as a basic remote sensing product; however, daily LSA products suffer from extensive data gaps primarily caused by cloud cover. Accordingly, several gap-filling methods were developed (e.g., spatiotemporal interpolation and data fusion with albedo climatology), although the traditional methods are limited by cloud scale and surface heterogeneity. Further, as the largest varying surface landscape feature, seasonal snow cover substantially influences LSA and represents a major uncertainty factor of gap recovery because previous studies failed to employ actual surface signals to capture such ephemeral but intense albedo changes under cloud cover. To address this issue, a three-step framework was proposed for estimating 1 km cloudy-sky LSA using passive microwave (PMW) data, albedo climatology, and Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) clear-sky albedo: (1) All-sky snow albedo was estimated from PMW brightness temperatures using a statistical model, (2) Continuous albedo dynamics were generated by combining the all-sky snow albedo with snow-free climatological albedo, and (3) The 1 km cloudy-sky LSA was predicted after filtering 1 km VIIRS clear-sky LSA by the albedo dynamic series. PMW-derived snow albedo was assessed over the Contiguous US (CONUS), and the final 1 km cloudy-sky LSA was validated across 10 sites from SURFRAD and Core AmeriFlux in 2013. Based on the comparison with high-quality MODIS pixels, the estimated snow albedo yielded an overall RMSE of 0.064 over CONUS, with a bias of −0.010 (R2 = 0.845). The recovered 1 km cloudy-sky LSA produced RMSEs of 0.074 (0.137) for all (snow) samples, a significant improvement over the Global Land Surface Satellite (GLASS) gap-free albedo products especially on snow cases (p-value = 0.027). Corresponding RMSE in calculating surface net radiation was also decreased by 38.91 W·m−2; and anomalous snow samples were corrected as well. The temporal analysis and all-sky LSA mapping suggest that the recovered LSA has satisfactory spatiotemporal continuity, and successfully captured details of spatiotemporal variability, especially for ephemeral snow events. This study provides an innovative solution to recover gaps in LSA data, and considerably improves the LSA accuracy under cloud cover, which can inform snow melting modeling, hazard forecasting, and irrigation management.
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Albedo Snow Gap Filling Land Surface Albedo Passive Microwave VIIRS
Source:
ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing 196 (2023) 340–355
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2023.01.004
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Document Type:
Journal Article
Funding:
Grant no. NA19NES4320002
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urn:sha256:dbd103356214fdb039df130f1c092c732615c2d017c2d04a96b556ab7a06dcb4
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