25 Instruments and methods for the ground-level reference measurement of solar
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radiation, albedo and net radiation
Madis Sulev, Juhan Ross and Enn-Märt Maasik
26 The NASA Earth System Science program in 21st century
Ghassem Asrar
27 ESA's plans and strategy for optical remote sensing of terrestrial surfaces
in the next decade
Michael Rast
28 Early results from ADEOS and future Earth Observation missions
Tamotsu Igarashi
29 VEGETATION: An Earth Observation system to monitor the biosphere
Gilbert Saint
30 Hyperspectral imager survey and developments for scientific and operational
land processes monitoring applications
Bernd P. Kunkel, J. Harms, U. Kummer, E. Schmidt, Umberto del Bello,
B. Harnisch and Roland Meynart
31 Summary and conclusions
Michel M. Verstraete and Massimo Menenti
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