Dr. Eric Vermote

 
Education

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

Research Projects

• A Global Land Surface Reflectance for Use in MODISLand Algorithms
• Refinement of MODIS Land surface reflectance in the visible to middle infrared and associated products
• Evaluation of NPP/VIIRS Land Surface Earth Data Record with respect to climate change objectives
• Fires as a disturbance in the Earth-Atmosphere system, a pilot study using MODIS data and experimental algorithms
• A 0.05 degree global climate/interdisciplinary long term data set from AVHRR, MODIS and VIIRS instruments
• Co-I with Ball State University: Using MODIS Ocean Bands to Augment Direct Satellite Estimation of Terrestrial Carbon Flux: A Novel Approach

Representative Papers

Remer L.A., Kaufman Y.J., Tanré D., Mattoo S., Chu D.A., Martins J.V., Li R-R., Ichoku C, Levy R. C., Kleidman R.G., Eck T.F., Vermote E., and B.N. Holben, (2004)

The MODIS Aerosol Algorithm, Products and Validation.
Journal of Atmospheric Sciences, In press.

Jacob, F., Petitcolin, F. Schmugge, T., Vermote, E., French, A. and Ogawa, K., (2004)

Comparison of land surface emissivity and radiometric temperature derived from MODIS and ASTER sensors.
Remote Sensing of Environment, 90, 2, 137-152

Ouaidrari Hassan and Eric F. Vermote, (1999)

Operational Atmospheric Correction of Landsat TM data.
Remote Sensing of the Environment, 70:4-15.

Holben B.N., Eck T.F., Slutsker I., Tanré D., Buis J.P., Setzer A., Vermote E.F., Reagan J.A., Kaufman Y.J., Nakajima T., Lavenue F., Jankowiak I., Smirnov A., (1998)

AERONET - A federated instrument network and data archive for aerosol characterization.
Remote Sensing of the Environment, 66:(1) 1-16.

Justice C., Vermote E.F., Townshend J.R.G., Defries R., Roy D. P., Hall D., Salomonson V., Privette J, Riggs G., Strahler A., Lucht W., Myneni R., Knjazihhin Y., Running S., and Nemani R., Wan Z, Huete A.R., Van Leeuwen W., Wolfe R.E., Giglio L., Muller J-P., Lewis P., Barnsley M.J., (1998)

The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS): land remote sensing for global change research.
IEEE Transaction on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 36(4),1228-1249.

Wolfe R.E., Roy D.P. Vermote E.F., (1998)

MODIS Land Data Storage, Gridding and Compositing Methodology: Level 2 Grid.
IEEE Transaction on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 36(4),1324-1338.

Roger J.C and Vermote E. F., (1998)

A method to Retrieve the Reflectivity Signature at 3.75mm from AVHRR data.
Remote Sensing of the Environment, 64:103-114.

Vermote E.F., El Saleous N.Z., Justice C.O., Kaufman Y.J., Privette J., Remer L., Roger J.C., Tanré D., (1997)

Atmospheric correction of visible to middle infrared EOS-MODIS data over land surface, background, operational algorithm and validation.
Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 102, d14, 17,131-17,141.

Kaufman Y.J., Tanré D., Remer L., Vermote E.F., Chu A., Holben B.N., (1997)

Operational Remote Sensing of Tropospheric Aerosol Over the Land from EOS-MODIS.
Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol.102, D14, 17,051-17,068.

Vermote E.F., Tanré D., Deuzé J.L., Herman M., Morcrette J.J., (1997)

Second Simulation of the Satellite Signal in the Solar Spectrum: an overview.
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 35,3,675-686.

Vermote E.F., El Saleous N.Z., Kaufman Y.J., Dutton E., (1997)

Stratospheric aerosol perturbing effect on the remote sensing of vegetation: Correction method for the composite NDVI after the Pinatubo eruption.
Remote Sensing Reviews, 15: 7-21.

Vermote E.F., El Saleous N.Z., and Holben B.N., (1996)

Aerosol Retrieval and atmospheric correction
Chapter 5 of Advances in the use of NOAA AVHRR for Land Applications,
D'Souza, G., Belward, A.S and Malingreau, J.P (Eds.), Kluwer Academic Press, Dordrecht. pp. 93-124.

Vermote E.F. and Kaufman Y.J., (1995)

Absolute calibration of AVHRR visible and near infrared channels using ocean and cloud views.
International Journal of Remote Sensing, 16, (13): 2317-2340.

Santer R., Deuzé J.L., Devaux C., Vermote E.F., Guyot G., Gu X.F., Verbrugghe M., Leroy M., (1992)

Spot calibration on the test site 'La crau' France.
Remote Sensing of the Environment, 41: 227-237.

Holben B.N., Vermote E.F., Kaufman Y.J., Tanré D., Kalb V., (1992)

Aerosol Retrieval over Land from AVHRR data-Application for Atmospheric Correction.
IEEE Transaction on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 30(2): 212-222.

Vermote E.F., El Saleous N.Z., Holben B.N., Kaufman Y.J., Tucker C.J., (1992)

Global aerosol Climatology over tropical belt using AVHRR data,
in IRS'92 Current Problems in Atmospheric Radiation,
S. Keevallik and O. Kärner (Eds), 191-194.

Vermote E.F. and Tanré, D., (1992)

Analytical Expressions for Radiative Properties of Planar Rayleigh Scattering Media Including Polarization Contribution.
Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, 47, (4): 305-314.

Vermote E.F., Santer R., Deschamps P.Y. and Herman M., 1992

In-flight calibration of large field of view sensors at short wavelengths using Rayleigh scattering.
International Journal of Remote Sensing, 13, (18): 3409-3429.