Impact of Sensor Degradation on the MODIS NDVI Time Series
- Author:
- Nagol, Jyoteshwar
- Published:
- April 16, 2012.
- Physical Description:
- 1 electronic document
- Additional Creators:
- Wang, Dongdong
Wolfe, Robert
Xiong, Xiaoxiong
Wu, Aisheng
Masek, Jeffrey
Morton, Douglas Christopher
Vermote, Eric
Levy, Robert - Access Online:
- hdl.handle.net
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- Unclassified, Unlimited, Publicly available.
- Summary:
- Time series of satellite data provide unparalleled information on the response of vegetation to climate variability. Detecting subtle changes in vegetation over time requires consistent satellite-based measurements. Here, the impact of sensor degradation on trend detection was evaluated using Collection 5 data from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) sensors on the Terra and Aqua platforms. For Terra MODIS, the impact of blue band (Band 3, 470 nm) degradation on simulated surface reflectance was most pronounced at near-nadir view angles, leading to a 0.001-0.004 yr1 decline in Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) under a range of simulated aerosol conditions and surface types. Observed trends in MODIS NDVI over North America were consistentwith simulated results,with nearly a threefold difference in negative NDVI trends derived from Terra (17.4%) and Aqua (6.7%) MODIS sensors during 2002-2010. Planned adjustments to Terra MODIS calibration for Collection 6 data reprocessing will largely eliminate this negative bias in detection of NDVI trends.
- Collection:
- NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) Collection.
- Note:
- Document ID: 20140009143.
GSFC-E-DAA-TN10441.
Remote Sensing of Environment; Volume 119; 55-61. - Terms of Use and Reproduction:
- Copyright, Distribution as joint owner in the copyright.
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- hdl.handle.net
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