Dear Martin
> Surface reflectance is normalised: the surface reflectance
> is derived for a given standardised view observation geometry.
> Compared to this surface albedo is the integral of the BRDF over all
> viewing and illumination directions of a hemisphere.
>
> So our proposal for "surface_reflectance" remains:
Since they are distinct and well-defined, I agree they need different
standard names. I notice we also have an existing standard name
toa_bidirectional_reflectance
Perhaps yours should include "bidirectional" as well, for clarity and
consistency?
> We agree to introduce a new standard name. Our proposal is
> "land_cover_lccs". The reference to the LCCS standard maintained by
> FAO is http://www.fao.org/DOCREP/003/X0596E/X0596e00.htm .
Good. I think this is the right approach, but I'd suggest unlccs_land_cover
(or faolccs_land_cover) because
* "un" (or "fao") would indicate it is specific to a particular scheme.
* it resembles the existing name isccp_cloud_area_fraction.
Cheers
Jonathan
Received on Mon May 14 2012 - 08:34:51 BST
