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Comparing Landsat Collection 2 Level-2 Surface Reflectance Red Band for MODIS and VIIRS

Detailed Description

This is a comparison of Collection 2 Level 2 OLI land surface reflectance (June 2021 to June 2022) for the red spectral band that was atmospherically corrected using MODIS Terra and using NOAA-21 VIIRS Climate Modeling Grid (CMG) atmospheric auxiliary data. Results derived considering 10,000 randomly selected land pixels over the Salton Sea, California (WRS-2 Path 39/ Row 37).  Source: Crawford et al., 2023 

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