Publications

Marta Luffarelli, Nicolas Misk, Vincent Leroy, Yves Govaerts (2025). Elaboration of Simulated Hyperspectral Calibration Reference over Pseudo-Invariant Calibration Reference. Atmosphere, 16(5).

Vincent Leroy, Robin Aschan, Peter Woolliams, Sebastian Schunke, Farshid Manoocheri, Yves Govaerts (2025). An SI-Traceable Protocol for the Validation of Radiative Transfer Model-Based Reflectance Simulation. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 63.

Vincent Leroy, Sebastian Schunke, Lucio Franceschini, Nicolas Misk, Yves Govaerts (2024). Impact of atmospheric vertical profile on hyperspectral simulations over bright desert pseudo-invariant calibration site. European Journal of Remote Sensing, 57(1).

Sebastian Schunke, Vincent Leroy, Yves Govaerts (2023). Retrieving BRDFs from UAV-based radiometers for fiducial reference measurements: caveats and recommendations. Frontiers in Remote Sensing, 4.

Marta Luffarelli, Lucio Franceschini, Yves Govaerts, Fabrizio Niro, Erminia De Grandis (2023). Surface Reflectance and Aerosol Retrieval from SPOT-VGT and PROBA-V in the Mission Exploitation Platform Environment. Remote Sensing, 15(21).

Yves Govaerts, Vincent Leroy, Yvan Nollet (2022). Radiative Transfer Model Comparison with Satellite Observations over CEOS Calibration Site Libya-4. Atmosphere, 13(11).

Marta Luffarelli, Yves Govaerts, Lucio Franceschini (2022). Aerosol Optical Thickness Retrieval in Presence of Cloud: Application to S3A/SLSTR Observations. Atmosphere, 13(5).

Yves Govaerts, Vincent Leroy, Yvan Nollet, Sebastian Schunke, Nicolas Misk (2021). Radiative Transfer Modelling Challenges to support Quantitative Hyperspectral Imaging. OSA Optical Sensors and Sensing Congress 2021 (AIS, FTS, HISE, SENSORS, ES), S. Buckley, F. Vanier, S. Shi, K. Walker, I. Coddington, S. Paine, K. Lok Chan, W. Moses, S. Qian, P. Pellegrino, F. Vollmer, G. , J. Jágerská, R. Menzies, L. Emmenegger, and J. Westberg, eds., OSA Technical Digest (Optica Publishing Group, 2021), paper HM5B.2..

Andrew M. Sayer, Yves Govaerts, Pekka Kolmonen, Atti Lipponen, Marta Luffarelli, Tero Mielonen, Falguni Patadia, Thomas Popp, Adam C. Povey, Kerstin Stebel, Marcin L. Witek (2020). A review and framework for the evaluation of pixel-level uncertainty estimates in satellite aerosol remote sensing. Atmos. Meas. Tech. 13.

Frank Rüthrich, Viju O. John, Rob Roebeling, Ralf Quast, Yves Govaerts, Emma R. Woolliams, Jörg Schulz (2019). Climate Data Records from Meteosat First Generation Part III: Recalibration and Uncertainty Tracing of the Visible Channel on Meteosat-2–7 Using Reconstructed, Spectrally Changing Response Functions. Remote Sens. 11.

Ralf Quast, Ralf Giering, Yves Govaerts, Frank Rüthrich, Rob Roebeling (2019). Climate Data Records from Meteosat First Generation Part II: Retrieval of the In-Flight Visible Spectral Response. Remote Sensing 11.

Marta Luffarelli, Yves Govaerts (2019). Joint retrieval of surface reflectance and aerosol properties with continuous variation of the state variables in the solution space – Part 2: application to geostationary and polar-orbiting satellite observations. Atmos. Meas. Tech. 12.

Yves Govaerts, Marta Luffarelli (2018). Joint retrieval of surface reflectance and aerosol properties with continuous variation of the state variables in the solution space – Part 1: theoretical concept. Atmos. Meas. Tech. 11.

Yves Govaerts, Frank Rüthrich, Viju O. John, Ralf Quast (2018). Climate Data Records from Meteosat First Generation Part I: Simulation of Accurate Top-of-Atmosphere Spectral Radiance over Pseudo-Invariant Calibration Sites for the Retrieval of the In-Flight Visible Spectral Response. Remote Sens. 10.

Javier Gorroño, Samuel Hunt, Tracy Scanlon, Andrew Banks, Nigel Fox, Emma Woolliams, Craig Underwood, Ferran Gascon, Marco Peters, Norman Fomferra, Yves Govaerts, Nicolas Lamquin, Veronique Bruniquel (2018). Providing uncertainty estimates of the Sentinel-2 top-of-atmosphere measurements for radiometric validation activities. EJRS.

Marta Luffarelli, Yves Govaerts, Cedric Goossens, Erwin Wolters, Else Swinnen (2017). Joint Retrieval of Surface Reflectance and Aerosol Properties from PROBA-V Observations, Part I: Algorithm Performance Evaluation. MultiTemp 2017.

Yves Govaerts, Marta Luffarelli, Cedric Goossens, Alix Damman (2017). The MSG/SEVIRI CISAR Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document (ATBD). Rayference ATBD.

Yves Govaerts, Ralf Quast, Frank Ruethrich, Ralf Giering, Rob Roebeling (2016). Recovery of MVIRI/VIS Band Spectral Response. EUMETSAT 2016.

Yves Govaerts, Marta Luffarelli, Alix Damman (2016). Effects of Sky Radiation on Surface Reflectance: Implications on The Derivation of LER from BRF for the Processing of Sentinel-4 Observations. ESA LPS 2016.

Ralf Quast, Yves Govaerts, Frank Ruethrich, R. Giering, R. Roebeling (2016). Creating Fidelitous Climate Data Records From Meteosat First Generation Observations. ESA LPS 2016.

Marta Luffarelli, Yves Govaerts, A. Damman (2016). Assessing Hourly Aerosol Properties Retrieval from MSG/SEVIRI Observations in the Framework of Aerosol-cci2. ESA LPS 2016.

M. J. Wooster, G. Roberts, P. H. Freeborn, W. Xu, Y. Govaerts, R. Beeby, J. He, A. Lattanzio, D. Fisher, R. Mullen (2015). LSA SAF Meteosat FRP products – Part 1: Algorithms, product contents, and analysis. EUMETSAT 2016.

Yves M. Govaerts (2015). Sand Dune Ridge Alignment Effects on Surface BRF over the Libya-4 CEOS Calibration Site. Sensors.

I. Decoster, N. Clerbeaux, Yves Govaerts, E. Baudrez, A. Ipe,, S. Dewitte, S. Nevens, A. Velazquez Blazquez, J. Cornelis (2013). Evidence of pre-launch characterization problem of Meteosat-7 visible spectral response. Remote Sensing Letters, 4(10).

Yves Govaerts, S. Sterckx, S. Adriaensen (2013). Use of Simulated Reflectances over Bright Desert Target as an Absolute Calibration Reference. Remote Sens. Lett..