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New Directions in Earth Observing: Scientific Applications ofMultiangle Remote Sensing

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  • The physical interpretation of simultaneous multiangle observations represents a relatively new approach to remote sensing of terrestrial geophysical and biophysical parameters. Multiangle measurements enable retrieval of physical scene characteristics, such as aerosol type, cloud morphology and height, and land cover (e.g., vegetation canopy type), providing improved albedo accuracies as well as compositional, morphological, and structural information that facilitates addressing many key climate, environmental, and ecological issues. While multiangle data from wide field-of-view scanners have traditionally been used to build up directional “signatures” of terrestrial scenes through multitemporal compositing, these approaches either treat the multiangle variation as a problem requiring correction or normalization or invoke statistical assumptions that may not apply to specific scenes. With the advent of a new generation of global imaging spectroradiometers capable of acquiring simultaneous visible/near-IR multiangle observations, namely, the Along- Track Scanning Radiometer-2, the Polarization and Directionality of the Earth’s Reflectances instrument, and the Multiangle Imaging SpectroRadiometer, both qualitatively new approaches as well as quantitative improvements in accuracy are achievable that exploit the multiangle signals as unique and rich sources of diagnostic information. This paper discusses several applications of this technique to scientific problems in terrestrial atmospheric and surface geophysics and biophysics.
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  • Diner, David J., and Coauthors, 1999: New Directions in Earth Observing: Scientific Applications ofMultiangle Remote Sensing. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 80, 2209–2228.
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  • D. Diner’s research is performed at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). G. Asner is supported by the NASA Interdisciplinary Science Program, NASA Land-cover/Land-use Change Program, and the Mellon Foundation. R. Davies is supported by Contract 960489 from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology. Y. Knyazikhin’s research is performed at the Department of Geography, Boston University, under contract with NASA. J.-P. Muller is supported by NERC and by the European Commission under the Fourth Framework research program. A. Nolin and J. Stroeve are supported by NASA Grant NAG5-6462. B. Pinty thanks his collaborators for fruitful discussions and acknowledges the support of the Space Applications Institute of the European Commission. C. Schaaf is supported by NASA under NAS5-31369 as part of the MODIS program.
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