Dr. Eric Vermote

 
Education

PhD  Atmospheric Optics, University of Lille, France, 1990
Engineer Degree, Ecoles des Hautes Etudes Industrielles, Lille, France, 1987

Research Projects

• MODIS/NPP VIIRS surface and top of the atmosphere reflectances evaluation, maintenance, validation and refinement

  • The purpose of this project is to correct remotely sensed data for the effects of the atmosphere (gases, aerosols). The surface reflectance product is used in the generation of several land products: Vegetation Indices, BRDF, Land Cover, Snow Cover, Thermal Anomalies, and LAI/FPAR.

  Web-enabled Landsat data (WELD) – a consistent seamless near real time MODIS-Landsat data fusion for the terrestrial user community

  • The purpose of this project is to improve the consistency and quality of ETM+ SLC-off data through a fusion of various MODIS products, thereby generating “seamless” radiometrically consistent mosaiced data sets.

  A Surface Reflectance Standard Product from LDCM and supporting activities

  • The purpose of this project is to develop a fully automated code for integration into the LDCM processing chain. This code will allow for the atmospheric correction necessary due to impeding aerosols.

  A 0.05 degree global climate/interdisciplinary long term data set from AVHRR, MODIS and VIIRS instruments

  The LTDR (Land Long Term Data Record) project produces consistent AVHRR and MODIS data for climate studies. The purpose of this project is to include within this data set the daily surface reflectance and NDVI products at the resolution of 0.05

Recent Papers

E. Vermote, C. Justice, F.M. Bréon, (2009) “Toward Towards a generalized approach for correction of the BRDF effect in MODIS directional reflectances”, in IEEE Transactions in Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 47,3,898-908.

Ellicott, E., Vermote, E., Petitcolin, F. and Hook, S.J. (2009) Validation of a New Parametric Model for Atmospheric Correction of Thermal Infrared Data. Geoscience and Remote Sensing, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing,,47, 295-311.
Nagol, J.R., Vermote, E.F. and Prince, S.D. (2009) Effects of atmospheric variation on AVHRR NDVI data. Remote Sensing of Environment,113, 392-397.

Vermote, E. F., and S. Kotchenova (2008), “Atmospheric correction for the monitoring of land surfaces”, J. Geophys. Res., 113, D23S90, doi:10.1029/2007JD009662.

C. E. Woodcock, R. Allen, M. Anderson, A. Belward, R. Bindschadler, W. Cohen, F. Gao, S. N. Goward, D. Helder, E. Helmer, R. Nemani, L. Oreopoulos, J. Schott, P. S. Thenkabail, E. F. Vermote, J. Vogelmann, M. A. Wulder, R. Wynne, and L. S. Team, "Free access to Landsat imagery,", 2008, Science, vol. 320, pp. 1011-1011

S. Y. Kotchenova, E. F. Vermote, R. Levy, and A. Lyapustin, "Radiative transfer codes for atmospheric correction and aerosol retrieval: intercomparison study,",2008, Appl. Opt., vol. 47, pp. 2215-2226, 2008.

F. Maignan, FM Bréon, E. Vermote, Ph Ciais, N. Viovy , 2008, “Mild winter and spring 2007 over Western Europe led to a widespread early vegetation onset “,GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, VOL. 35, L02404, doi:10.1029/2007GL032472.

S. Y. Kotchenova and E. Vermote, 2007, ”Validation of a vector version of the 6S radiative transfer code for atmospheric correction of satellite data. Part II: Homogeneous Lambertian and anisotropic surfaces”, 2007, Applied Optics, Vol. 46, Issue 20, pp. 4455-4464

Levy, R. C., L. Remer, S. Mattoo, E. Vermote, and Y. J. Kaufman, 2007: Second-generation algorithm for retrieving aerosol properties over land from MODIS spectral reflectance. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH, VOL. 112, D13211, doi:10.1029/2006JD007811, 2007

Ranga B. Myneni, Wenze Yang, Ramakrishna R. Nemani, Alfredo R. Huete, Robert E. Dickinson, Yuri Knyazikhin, Kamel Didan, Rong Fu, Robinson I. Negrón Juárez, Sasan S. Saatchi, Hirofumi Hashimoto, Kazuhito Ichii, Nikolay V. Shabanov, Bin Tan, Piyachat Ratana, Jeffrey L. Privette, Jeffrey T. Morisette, Eric F. Vermote, David P. Roy, Robert E. Wolfe, Mark A. Friedl, Steven W. Running, Petr Votava, Nazmi El-Saleous, Sadashiva Devadiga, Yin Su, and Vincent V. Salomonson, “Large seasonal swings in leaf area of Amazon rainforests”, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Mar 13, 2007;104: 4821-4823

Vermote E.F., Roger J.C., Sinyuk A., Saleous N.Z. and Dubovik O., 2007, Fusion of MODIS-MISR aerosol inversion for estimation of aerosol absorption, Remote Sensing of Environment, Volume 107, 1-2,  81-89

Alexander Sinyuk A., Dubovik O., Holben B.N., Eck T.F., Breon F.,  Martonchik J., Kahn R., Diner D.J., Vermote E.F., Roger J.C., Lapyonok T. and  Slutsker I.., 2007, Simultaneous retrieval of aerosol and surface properties from a combination of AERONET and satellite data, Remote Sensing of Environment , Vol 107,1-2,90-108.