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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">ISPRS-Archives</journal-id>
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<journal-title>The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences</journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="publisher">ISPRS-Archives</abbrev-journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="nlm-ta">Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.</abbrev-journal-title>
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<issn pub-type="epub">2194-9034</issn>
<publisher><publisher-name>Copernicus Publications</publisher-name>
<publisher-loc>Göttingen, Germany</publisher-loc>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5194/isprsarchives-XL-2-W1-13-2013</article-id>
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<article-title>TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION FOR THE VALIDATION OF REMOTE SENSING PRODUCTS</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Ge</surname>
<given-names>Y.</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Li</surname>
<given-names>X.</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">
<sup>2</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Hu</surname>
<given-names>M. G.</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Wang</surname>
<given-names>J. H.</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Jin</surname>
<given-names>R.</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">
<sup>2</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Wang</surname>
<given-names>J. F.</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Zhang</surname>
<given-names>R. H.</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
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<label>1</label>
<addr-line>Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 11A, Datun Road, Beijing, China</addr-line>
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<label>2</label>
<addr-line>Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 320 Donggang West Road, Lanzhou, China</addr-line>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>13</day>
<month>05</month>
<year>2013</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>XL-2/W1</volume>
<fpage>13</fpage>
<lpage>17</lpage>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2013 Y. Ge et al.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2013</copyright-year>
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<p>The validation of remote sensing products (RSPs) is fundamental work before the proper use of RSPs. This paper mainly introduces
the technical specification for the validation of remote sensing product, which is used to guide user how to validate the available
products. The validation of remote sensing products (VRSP) mainly there are two levels. The first level focuses on the validation at
pixel scale and the other is the product level which contains a number of pixels that are distributed in different land use types which
are selected to represent both the space-time characteristics of surface parameters investigated. At pixel scale, the validation
procedure mainly consists of three steps: sampling design for ground observation, data collection and estimation the mean value at
pixel scale. The data types of ground observation include the wireless sensor network, which are used to capture multi-scale
heterogeneities of surface parameters, and the footprint which could be a flux observation such as eddy covariance (EC) and large
aperture scintillometer (LAS). After finishing the validation at pixel scale, the second-level validation for the whole remote sensing
product is followed. The assessment with indexes is then used to evaluate the performance of the validation. Last, a validation
report on the description of the validation will be included in the technical specification.</p>
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