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87
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Overview

Eric Vermote is affiliated with the Goddard Space Flight Center in the United States. Their research primarily spans environmental science, with a focus on the application of remote sensing technologies to monitor and analyze ecological, atmospheric, and land-use changes.

The scientist's work covers various interconnected subfields including ecology, global and planetary change, atmospheric science, environmental engineering, and aerospace engineering. Their scholarly output centers on several key topics such as remote sensing in agriculture, atmospheric aerosols and clouds, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, calibration and measurement techniques, remote sensing and LiDAR applications, land use and ecosystem services, and marine and coastal ecosystems.

Eric Vermote has contributed to numerous publications, some of the recent noteworthy papers include:

  • "Cloud Mask Intercomparison eXercise (CMIX): An evaluation of cloud masking algorithms for Landsat 8 and Sentinel-2" (2022), published in Remote Sensing of Environment
  • "The 50-year Landsat collection 2 archive" (2023), published in Science of Remote Sensing
  • "Assessing within-Field Corn and Soybean Yield Variability from WorldView-3, Planet, Sentinel-2, and Landsat 8 Satellite Imagery" (2021), published in Remote Sensing
  • "Continuity between NASA MODIS Collection 6.1 and VIIRS Collection 2 land products" (2024), published in Remote Sensing of Environment
  • "Atmospheric Correction Inter-comparison eXercise, ACIX-II Land: An assessment of atmospheric correction processors for Landsat 8 and Sentinel-2 over land" (2022), published in Remote Sensing of Environment

They frequently co-author research with several colleagues, including:

  • Sergii Skakun
  • Jean-Claude Roger
  • B. Franch
  • Olivier Hagolle
  • Natacha Kalecinski

Eric Vermote's work is often published in the following venues, reflecting their domain expertise:

  • Remote Sensing
  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Science of Remote Sensing
  • Limnology and Oceanography Letters
  • Environmental Research Letters

The scope of their research includes developing and assessing algorithms for satellite imagery processing, advancing atmospheric correction techniques, and monitoring agricultural and ecological variability using remote sensing data.

Best Publications

  • AERONET-a federated instrument network and data archive for aerosol Characterization

    B.N. Holben;T.F. Eck;I. Slutsker;D. Tanré

  • Second Simulation of the Satellite Signal in the Solar Spectrum, 6S: an overview

    E.F. Vermote;D. Tanre;J.L. Deuze;M. Herman

  • The MODIS Aerosol Algorithm, Products and Validation

    L. A. Remer;Y. J. Kaufman;D. Tanré;S. Mattoo

  • An extended AVHRR 8‐km NDVI dataset compatible with MODIS and SPOT vegetation NDVI data

    Compton J. Tucker;Jorge E. Pinzon;Molly E. Brown;Daniel A. Slayback

  • Landsat-8: Science and Product Vision for Terrestrial Global Change Research

    David P. Roy;M.A. Wulder;Thomas R. Loveland;C.E. Woodcock

  • The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS): land remote sensing for global change research

    C.O. Justice;E. Vermote;J.R.G. Townshend;R. Defries

  • Operational remote sensing of tropospheric aerosol over land from EOS moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer

    Y. J. Kaufman;D. Tanré;L. A. Remer;E. F. Vermote

  • Global land change from 1982 to 2016.

    Xiao Peng Song;Matthew C. Hansen;Stephen V. Stehman;Peter V. Potapov

  • A Landsat surface reflectance dataset for North America, 1990-2000

    J.G. Masek;E.F. Vermote;N.E. Saleous;R. Wolfe

  • An overview of MODIS Land data processing and product status

    C.O Justice;J.R.G Townshend;E.F Vermote;E Masuoka

  • Preliminary analysis of the performance of the Landsat 8/OLI land surface reflectance product

    Eric Vermote;Chris Justice;Martin Claverie;Martin Claverie;Belen Franch;Belen Franch

  • Second‐generation operational algorithm: Retrieval of aerosol properties over land from inversion of Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer spectral reflectance

    Robert C. Levy;Robert C. Levy;Lorraine A. Remer;Shana Mattoo;Eric F. Vermote

  • The Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 surface reflectance data set

    Martin Claverie;Martin Claverie;Junchang Ju;Junchang Ju;Jeffrey G. Masek;Jennifer L. Dungan

  • Characterization of Landsat-7 to Landsat-8 reflective wavelength and normalized difference vegetation index continuity

    David P. Roy;V. Kovalskyy;Hankui Zhang;Eric F. Vermote

  • Free access to Landsat imagery.

    Curtis E. Woodcock;Richard Allen;Martha Anderson;Alan Belward

  • Current status of Landsat program, science, and applications

    Michael A. Wulder;Thomas R. Loveland;David P. Roy;Christopher J. Crawford

  • Atmospheric correction of MODIS data in the visible to middle infrared: first results

    Eric F Vermote;Nazmi Z El Saleous;Christopher O Justice

  • Atmospheric correction of visible to middle-infrared EOS-MODIS data over land surfaces: Background, operational algorithm and validation

    E. F. Vermote;N. El Saleous;C. O. Justice;Y. J. Kaufman

  • Validation of a vector version of the 6S radiative transfer code for atmospheric correction of satellite data. Part I: Path radiance

    Svetlana Y. Kotchenova;Eric F. Vermote;Raffaella Matarrese;Frank J. Klemm

  • A generalized regression-based model for forecasting winter wheat yields in Kansas and Ukraine using MODIS data

    I. Becker-Reshef;E. Vermote;M. Lindeman;C. Justice

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean-Claude Roger
Jean-Claude Roger University of Maryland, College Park
Sergii Skakun
Sergii Skakun University of Maryland, College Park
Christopher O. Justice
Christopher O. Justice University of Maryland, College Park
Jeffrey G. Masek
Jeffrey G. Masek Goddard Space Flight Center
David P. Roy
David P. Roy Michigan State University
John R. Townshend
John R. Townshend University of Maryland, College Park
Ranga B. Myneni
Ranga B. Myneni Boston University
Yoram J. Kaufman
Yoram J. Kaufman Goddard Space Flight Center
Didier Tanré
Didier Tanré University of Lille
Brent N. Holben
Brent N. Holben Goddard Space Flight Center

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