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Figure 5.2 – Location of the Terra MODIS scenes selected over snow-covered regions<br />
for the study of Aqua MODIS band 6 restoration (Left) Alaska, May 5, 2001 (Center)<br />
Labrador, Canada, November 7, 200 (Right) Siberia, Russia, May 24, 2001<br />
accurate quantitative variables associated with snow and ice components, and used in<br />
climate change numerical mo<strong>de</strong>ls, an alternative option to NDSI 17 is mandatory. To this<br />
purpose, restoration techniques for Aqua MODIS band 6 have been recently proposed.<br />
5.2 Existing restoration techniques<br />
5.2.1 Global interpolation<br />
[L. L. Wang and Nianzeng] were the first to investigate the relationship between bands<br />
6 and 7 and <strong>de</strong>monstrated the feasability of restoring Aqua MODIS band 6 missing data.<br />
The authors first remarqued that the difference of snow reflectance between Terra MODIS<br />
bands 6 and 7 is very close to the same difference on Aqua MODIS. Using observations<br />
consisting of Terra MODIS level 1B calibrated and geolocated radiances at TOA, polynomial<br />
regression was used to quantify the analytical relationship between Terra MODIS<br />
bands 6 and 7. Quantitative analysis conducted by the authors over snow covered areas,<br />
shows that TOA reflectances in Terra MODIS band 6/7, and NDSI 16 /NDSI 17 were highly<br />
correlated with correlation coefficients of 0.9821 and 0.9777 respectively. Linear, quadratic,<br />
cubic, and fourth-<strong>de</strong>gree polynomials were <strong>de</strong>rived from Terra bands 6/7 scatter plots in<br />
or<strong>de</strong>r to be applied to Aqua MODIS. Wang et al. suggest restoring Aqua MODIS band 6<br />
using cubic and quadratic polynomes of the corresponding band 7 reflectances :<br />
ρ 6 =1.6032ρ 3 7 − 1.9458ρ 2 7 +1.7948ρ 7 +0.012396<br />
ρ 6 = −0.70472ρ 2 7 +1.5369ρ 7 +0.025409<br />
(5.3)<br />
These analytical relationships between bands 6 and 7 were <strong>de</strong>rived fom Terra measurements<br />
over snow covered regions. It obviously do not account for land surface cover types,<br />
spectral characteristics, scanning geometry. Application of this approach to restore band 6