Remote sensing of earth's energy budget: Synthesis and review

S Liang, D Wang, T He, Y Yu - International Journal of Digital Earth, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
The Earth's climate is largely determined by its energy budget. Since the 1960s, satellite
remote sensing has been used in estimating these energy budget components at both the …

[HTML][HTML] Map** surface broadband albedo from satellite observations: A review of literatures on algorithms and products

Y Qu, S Liang, Q Liu, T He, S Liu, X Li - Remote Sensing, 2015 - mdpi.com
Surface albedo is one of the key controlling geophysical parameters in the surface energy
budget studies, and its temporal and spatial variation is closely related to the global climate …

A new land surface temperature fusion strategy based on cumulative distribution function matching and multiresolution Kalman filtering

S Xu, J Cheng - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
Fusing high-level passive microwave (PMW) LST and thermal infrared (TIR) LST products is
a promising means of generating high-quality, all-weather land surface temperature (LST) …

Evaluating land surface albedo estimation from Landsat MSS, TM, ETM+, and OLI data based on the unified direct estimation approach

T He, S Liang, D Wang, Y Cao, F Gao, Y Yu… - Remote Sensing of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Surface albedo is widely used in climate and environment applications as an important
parameter for controlling the surface energy budget. There is an increasing need for albedo …

Analysis of global land surface albedo climatology and spatial‐temporal variation during 1981–2010 from multiple satellite products

T He, S Liang, DX Song - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
For several decades, long‐term time series data sets of multiple global land surface albedo
products have been generated from satellite observations. These data sets have been used …

Monitoring land surface albedo and vegetation dynamics using high spatial and temporal resolution synthetic time series from Landsat and the MODIS BRDF/NBAR …

Z Wang, CB Schaaf, Q Sun, JH Kim, AM Erb… - International journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Seasonal vegetation phenology can significantly alter surface albedo which in turn affects
the global energy balance and the albedo warming/cooling feedbacks that impact climate …

An approach for the long-term 30-m land surface snow-free albedo retrieval from historic Landsat surface reflectance and MODIS-based a priori anisotropy knowledge

Y Shuai, JG Masek, F Gao, CB Schaaf, T He - Remote Sensing of …, 2014 - Elsevier
Land surface albedo has been recognized by the Global Terrestrial Observing System
(GTOS) as an essential climate variable crucial for accurate modeling and monitoring of the …

Retrieval of high-resolution melting-season albedo and its implications for the Karakoram Anomaly

F **e, S Liu, Y Zhu, X Qing, S Tan, Y Gao, M Qi… - Remote Sensing of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Glacial responses to climate change exhibit considerable heterogeneity. Although global
glaciers are generally thinning and retreat, glaciers in the Karakoram region are distinct in …

[HTML][HTML] A data fusion method for generating hourly seamless land surface temperature from Himawari-8 AHI data

S Dong, J Cheng, J Shi, C Shi, S Sun, W Liu - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
High temporal resolution and spatially complete (seamless) land surface temperature (LST)
play a crucial role in numerous geoscientific aspects. This paper proposes a data fusion …

[HTML][HTML] Fusion of multiple gridded biomass datasets for generating a global forest aboveground biomass map

Y Zhang, S Liang - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
Many advanced satellite estimation methods have been developed, but global forest
aboveground biomass (AGB) products remain largely uncertain. In this study, we explored …