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Determination of optimum viewing angles for the angular normalization of land surface temperature over vegetated

Huazhong Ren1,2,3, Guangjian Yan4, Rongyuan Liu5,6

  • 1State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, School of Geography, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China. f.nerry@unistra.fr.

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