Abstract: A 6-year(1980?85)set of GOES data for seven sites in Kansas has been analyzed to determine the climatological characteristics of surface heating. The dataset as described, and procedures for automatically screening out ...

Abstract: Solar radiant energy incident at the earth's surface is a quantity of increasing importance in agricultural monitoring and solar power development. An experiment was undertaken in the summer of 1977 to determine if incoming ...

Abstract: Monthly mean satellite measurements of surface heating rate, surface temperature, and normalized difference vegetation index were collected for seven locations in Kansas. These were combined with monthly average surface ...

Abstract: As a first step in the development of a technique for estimating daily maximum and minimum shelter temperatures for agricultural monitoring, this study made use of operational satellite sounder data to estimate shelter ...

Abstract: In an earlier study, Pinker et al. have shown that the daily average net radiation at the top of the atmosphere is highly correlated with the daily average net radiation at the surface. A regression formalism was derived ...

Abstract: Northern and Southern Hemisphere polar stereographic maps of ?vegetation index? are now being produced by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The maps are derived from visible and near-infrared data from ...

Abstract: In this study, an attempt has been made to derive the daily net radiation at the top of the atmosphere using the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) visible (0.55?0.75 ?m) and IR window (10.5?12.5 ?m) ...

Abstract: A vegetation index and a radiative surface temperature were derived from satellite data acquired at approximately 1330 LST for each of 37 cities and for their respective nearby rural regions from 28 June through 8 August ...