24. AUSTRALIAN SITES FOR THE VALIDATION OF SATELLITE
RETRIEVALS OF THE RADIATIVE PROPERTIES OF LAND
SURFACES
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The suitability of the site for extrapolating ground-based surface
measurements to larger spatial scales is demonstrated by the constancy of the
mean to within a few percent for pixel sizes from 20 m to 1 km. At larger
scales it is seen that the radiance of 1-km pixels measured at the site by