7. Matthews Albedo

The Matthews Seasonal Integrated Albedo data set includes four data files for Winter, Spring, Summer, and Autumn (January, April, July and October respectively in the Northern Hemisphere; and July, October, January and April for the Southern Hemisphere). They show the seasonal percentage of incoming radiation reflected into space, integrated across the electro-magnetic spectrum. These are based on the vegetation and cultivation intensity maps, rather than being measured directly, and are for snow-free conditions except for permanently snow-covered continental ice.

The Matthews Seasonal Albedo data files are one byte / eight bits per pixel, and consists of 180 rows (lines) by 360 columns (elements /pixels/samples) of data