Rayference publications

2024

• Leroy V, Schunke S, Franceschini L, Misk N and Govaerts Y (2024), "Impact of atmospheric vertical profile on hyperspectral simulations over bright desert pseudo-invariant calibration site," European Journal of Remote Sensing.

2023

• Schunke S, Leroy V and Govaerts Y (2023), "Retrieving BRDFs from UAV-based radiometers for fiducial reference measurements: caveats and recommendations," Frontiers in Remote Sensing 4:1285800.
• Govaerts, M. Y., T Vladimirova, J Vande Hey, Lucio Franceschini, Pavel Litvinov, and Masahiro Momoi. 2023. "3D Radiative Digital Twin Earth to Support Eo Big Data Generation," In Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Big Data from Space 6-9 Novembre 2023. Vienna: Publications Office of the European Union.
• Luffarelli, M., L. Franceschini, Y. Govaerts, F. Niro, and E. De Grandis. 2023. "Surface Reflectance and Aerosol Retrieval from SPOT-VGT and PROBA-V in the Mission Exploitation Platform Environment," Remote Sensing 15, (21):5109.

2022

• Govaerts, Y., Nollet, Y., Leroy, V. 2022. “Radiative Transfer Model Comparison with Satellite Observations over CEOS Calibration Site Libya-4..” Atmosphere 13, (11):1759.

• Luffarelli, M., Y. Govaerts, and L. Franceschini. 2022. “Aerosol Optical Thickness Retrieval in Presence of Cloud: Application to S3A/SLSTR Observations.” Atmosphere 13 (5): 691.

2021

• Govaerts, Yves, Vincent Leroy, Yvan Nollet, Sebastian Schunke, and Nicolas Misk. 2021. “ Radiative Transfer Modelling Challenges to Support Quantitative Hyperspectral Imaging.” In OSA Optical Sensors and Sensing Congress 2021 (AIS, FTS, HISE, SENSORS, ES), HM5B.2. Washington, DC: OSA.

2020

• Sayer, A. M., Y. Govaerts, P. Kolmonen, A. Lipponen, M. Luffarelli, T. Mielonen, F. Patadia, et al. 2020. “ A Review and Framework for the Evaluation of Pixel-Level Uncertainty Estimates in Satellite Aerosol Remote Sensing.” Atmospheric Measurement Techniques 13 (2): 373–404.

2019

• Lamquin, Nicolas, Emma Woolliams, Véronique Bruniquel, Ferran Gascon, Javier Gorroño, Yves Govaerts, Vincent Leroy, et al. 2019. “ An Inter-Comparison Exercise of Sentinel-2 Radiometric Validations Assessed by Independent Expert Groupss.” Remote Sensing of Environment 233 (November): 111369.
• Rüthrich, F., V. O. John, R. A. Roebeling, R. Quast, Y. Govaerts, E. Wooliams, and J. 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 Sensing 11 (10): 1165.
• Quast, R., R. Giering, Y. Govaerts, F. Rüthrich, and R. Roebeling. 2019 " Climate Data Records from Meteosat First Generation Part II: Retrieval of the In-Flight Visible Spectral Response." Remote Sensing 11, no. 5
• Luffarelli, M. and Y. 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." Atmospheric Measurement Techniques 12 (2): 791–809.

2018

• Govaerts, Y. and Luffarelli, M. (2018) "Joint retrieval of surface reflectance and aerosol properties with continuous variations of the state variables in the solution space: Part 1: theoretical concept", Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 11, no. 12, 6589–6603.
• Govaerts, Y.M.; Ruethrich, F.; John, V.O.; Quast " 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. 2018, 10, 1959
• Luffarelli, M. and Govaerts, Y. (2018) " 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. Discuss., doi.org/10.5194/amt-2018-265, in review
• Gorroño, Javier, Samuel Hunt, Tracy Scanlon, Andrew Banks, Nigel Fox, Emma Woolliams, Craig Underwood, et al. “Providing Uncertainty Estimates of the Sentinel-2 Top-of-Atmosphere Measurements for Radiometric Validation Activities”, European Journal of Remote Sensing 51, no. 1 (January 1, 2018): 650–66. https://doi.org/10.1080/22797254.2018.1471739.

2017

• Luffarelli, M., Y. Govaerts, C. Goossens, E.L.A. Wolters, and E. Swinnen. (2017). “Joint Retrieval of Surface Reflectance and Aerosol Properties from PROBA-V Observations, Part I: Algorithm Performance Evaluation.” In Proceedings of MultiTemp 2017. Bruges, Belgium.
• Govaerts, Y., M. Luffarelli, C. Goossens, and A. Damman. 2017. The MSG/SEVIRI CISAR Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document (ATBD), Aerosol_cci O2.2, Rayference, pp 29.

2016

• Govaerts, Y., R. Quast, F. Ruethrich, R. Giering, R. Roebeling (2016). " Recovery of MVIRI/VIS band spectral response". In Proceedings of the 2016 EUMETSAT Meteorological Satellite Conference, 26-30 September 2016, Darmstadt, Germany.
• Govaerts, Y., M. Luffarelli, and A. Damman (2016). " Effects of Sky Radiation on Surface Reflectance: Implications on The Derivation of LER from BRF for the Processing of Sentinel-4 Observations". In Proceedings of the “Living Planet Symposium 2016”, Prague, Czech Republic, May 09 – 13 2016, ESA SP-740.
• Luffarelli, M., Y. Govaerts, and A. Damman (2016). "Assessing Hourly Aerosol Properties Retrieval from MSG/SEVIRI Observations in the Framework of Aeroosl-cci2." In Proceedings of the “Living Planet Symposium 2016”, Prague, Czech Republic, May 09 – 13 2016, ESA SP-740.
• Ralf Q., Y. Govaerts, F. Ruethrich, R. Giering, R. Roebeling (2016). "Creating Fidelitious Climate Data Records From Meteosat First Generation Observations." In Proceedings of the “Living Planet Symposium 2016”, Prague, Czech Republic, May 09 – 13 2016, ESA SP-740.

2015

• Govaerts, Yves M. (2015) " Sand Dune Ridge Alignment Effects on Surface BRF over the Libya-4 CEOS Calibration Site." Sensors 15, no. 2: 3453-3470.
• Wooster, M. J., Roberts G., Freeborn P. H. , Xu W., Govaerts Y., Beeby R., He J., Lattanzio A., Mullen R. (2015) "Meteosat SEVIRI Fire Radiative Power (FRP) products from the Land Surface Analysis Satellite Applications Facility (LSA SAF) – Part 1: Algorithms, product contents and analysis", Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss., 15, 15831-15907
• Govaerts, Y. (2015). " Sand Dune Ridge Alignment Effects on Surface BRF over Libya-4 Calibration Site". In ESA Special Publication, edited by L. Ouwehand, 734:8. ESA Special Publication.

2013

• Govaerts, Y., Sterckx S. and Adriaensen S. (2013) "Use of simulated reflectances over bright desert target as an absolute calibration reference" Remote Sensing Letters, Vol. 4, Iss. 6, 2013
• Decoster I., N. Clerbaux , Y. M. Govaerts , E. Baudrez , A. Ipe , S. Dewitte , S. Nevens , A. Velazquez Blazquez and J. Cornelis (2013) " Evidence of pre-launch characterization problem of Meteosat-7 visible spectral response", Remote Sensing Letters, 4:10, 1008-1017
• Govaerts, Y. M., M. Van Roozendael, O. Dubovik and I. Trigo (2013) Sentinel-4 Surface Reflectance Map Conceptual Development, Final Report ESA contract 40000106521/12/NL/MP,14pp.

2012

• Govaerts, Y. M., S. Sterckx, and S. Adriaensen (2012). " Optical sensor calibration using simulated radiances over desert sites". In Proceedings of IGARSS12 Confrerence, Munich, Germany, pp. 6932-6935.