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When a surface reflectance time series is acquired from satellites with variable observation geometry, the directional variation generates an apparent noise which can be corrected by modeling the bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF). The VJB (Vermote, Justice and Br\u00e9on, 2009) method estimates a target\u2019s BRDF shape using 5 years of observation and corrects for directional effects maintaining the high temporal resolution of the measurement using the instantaneous Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI). The method was originally established on MODIS data but its viability and optimization for AVHRR data have not been fully explored. In this study we analyze different approaches to find the most robust way of applying the VJB correction to AVHRR data, considering that high noise in the red band (B1) caused by atmospheric effect makes the VJB method unstable. Firstly, our results show that for coarse spatial resolution, where the vegetation dynamics of the target don\u2019t change significantly, deriving BRDF parameters from 15+ years of observations reduces the average noise by up to 7% in the Near Infrared (NIR) band and 6% in the NDVI, in comparison to using 3-year windows. Secondly, we find that the VJB method can be modified for AVHRR data to improve the robustness of the correction parameters and decrease the noise by an extra 8% and 9% in the red and NIR bands with respect to using the classical VJB inversion. We do this by using the Stable method, which obtains the volumetric BRDF parameter (V) based on its NDVI dependency, and then obtains the geometric BRDF parameter (R) through the inversion of just one parameter.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs11050502","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,3,4]],"date-time":"2019-03-04T05:45:36Z","timestamp":1551678336000},"page":"502","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":13,"title":["Improving the AVHRR Long Term Data Record BRDF Correction"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"11","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5134-8582","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jose Luis","family":"Villaescusa-Nadal","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"NASA Goddard Space Flight Center 8800 Greenbelt Rd, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA"},{"name":"Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland College Park, 2181 LeFrak Hall, College Park, MD 20740, USA"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0593-7874","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Belen","family":"Franch","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"NASA Goddard Space Flight Center 8800 Greenbelt Rd, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA"},{"name":"Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland College Park, 2181 LeFrak Hall, College Park, MD 20740, USA"}]},{"given":"Eric F.","family":"Vermote","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland College Park, 2181 LeFrak Hall, College Park, MD 20740, USA"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3119-1175","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jean-Claude","family":"Roger","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"NASA Goddard Space Flight Center 8800 Greenbelt Rd, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA"},{"name":"Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland College Park, 2181 LeFrak Hall, College Park, MD 20740, USA"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,3,1]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"Vermote, E., and Claverie, M. 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