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 _______________________________________________ CF-metadata mailing list CF-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata
