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In this study, the 30 m spatial resolution data of the Digital Elevation Model (DEM) from ASTER (Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer) are used to account for those topographic effects when retrieving land surface reflectance from satellite data at lower spatial resolution (e.g., 1 km). The methodology integrates the effects of sub-pixel topography on the estimation of the total irradiance received at the surface considering direct, diffuse and terrain irradiance. The corrected total irradiance is then used to compute the topographically corrected surface reflectance. The proposed method has been developed to be applied on various kilometric pixel size satellite data. In this study, it was tested and validated with synthetic Landsat data aggregated at 1 km. The results obtained after a  sub-pixel topographic correction are compared with the ones obtained after a pixel level topographic correction and show that in rough terrain, the sub-pixel topography correction method provides better results even if it tends to slightly overestimate the retrieved land surface reflectance in some cases.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs61110356","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2014,10,28]],"date-time":"2014-10-28T10:25:07Z","timestamp":1414491907000},"page":"10356-10374","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":23,"title":["Improved Surface Reflectance from Remote Sensing Data with Sub-Pixel Topographic Information"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"6","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9988-3071","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Laure","family":"Roupioz","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"ICube Laboratory, UMR 7357 CNRS-University of Strasbourg, 300 bd Sebastien Brant, CS 10413, F-67412 Illkirch Cedex, France"},{"name":"Alterra, Wageningen UR, Droevendaalsesteeg 3, 6708 PB Wageningen, The Netherlands"},{"name":"Faculty of Civil Engineering and Earth Sciences, Delft University of Technology, Building 23, Stevinweg 1, Post Box 5048, 2628 CN Delft, The Netherlands"}]},{"given":"Francoise","family":"Nerry","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"ICube Laboratory, UMR 7357 CNRS-University of Strasbourg, 300 bd Sebastien Brant, CS 10413, F-67412 Illkirch Cedex, France"}]},{"given":"Li","family":"Jia","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Alterra, Wageningen UR, Droevendaalsesteeg 3, 6708 PB Wageningen, The Netherlands"},{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Science, B-205, RADI Olympic Park Campus, Datun Road 20A, Chaoyang District, P.O. 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