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Nevertheless, the inversion of the necessary BRDF parameters for the normalization requires the implementation of robust methods to account for the noise in the Level 2 surface reflectances caused by the atmospheric correction process. Here, we compare normalized reflectances obtained with a Kalman filtering approach with i\/the classical weighted linear inversion and ii\/a normalization performed using the coefficients of the NASA-MODIS BRDF MCD43A1 band 2 product. We show, using the RadCalNet nadir-view reflectances, that the Kalman filtering approach is a more suitable approach for the Sen2Cor level 2 and the selected sites. Using the proposed approach, daily global maps of land surface BRDF coefficients and the derived normalized Sentinel 2 reflectances would be extremely useful to the global and regional climate modelling communities and for the world\u2019s cover monitoring.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs13173373","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,8,25]],"date-time":"2021-08-25T23:25:50Z","timestamp":1629933950000},"page":"3373","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":4,"title":["BRDF Estimations and Normalizations of Sentinel 2 Level 2 Data Using a Kalman-Filtering Approach and Comparisons with RadCalNet Measurements"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"13","author":[{"given":"Bertrand","family":"Saulquin","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"CS, 5 rue Brindejonc des Moulinais, 31500 Toulouse, France"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,8,25]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"25","DOI":"10.1016\/j.rse.2011.11.026","article-title":"Sentinel-2: ESA\u2019s optical high-resolution mission for GMES operational services","volume":"120","author":"Drusch","year":"2012","journal-title":"Remote Sens. 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