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Over the years, several efforts have been made on the calibration of the different instruments to establish a consistent land surface reflectance time-series and to augment the AVHRR data record with data from other sensors, such as the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS). In this paper, we present a summary of all the corrections applied to the AVHRR surface reflectance and NDVI Version 4 Product, developed in the framework of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Climate Data Record (CDR) program. These corrections result from assessment of the geolocation, improvement of cloud masking, and calibration monitoring. Additionally, we evaluate the performance of the surface reflectance over the AERONET sites by a cross-comparison with MODIS, which is an already validated product, and evaluation of a downstream leaf area index (LAI) product. We demonstrate the utility of this long time-series by estimating the winter wheat yield over the USA. The methods developed by Becker-Reshef et al. (2010) and Franch et al. (2015) are applied to both the MODIS and AVHRR data. Comparison of the results from both sensors during the MODIS-era shows the consistency of the dataset with similar errors of 10%. When applying the methods to AVHRR historical data from the 1980s, the results have errors equivalent to those derived from MODIS.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs9030296","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2017,3,21]],"date-time":"2017-03-21T12:22:22Z","timestamp":1490098942000},"page":"296","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":62,"title":["A 30+ Year AVHRR Land Surface Reflectance Climate Data Record and Its Application to Wheat Yield Monitoring"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"9","author":[{"given":"Belen","family":"Franch","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA"},{"name":"NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, 8800 Greenbelt Road, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA"}]},{"given":"Eric","family":"Vermote","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, 8800 Greenbelt Road, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3119-1175","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jean-Claude","family":"Roger","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA"},{"name":"NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, 8800 Greenbelt Road, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA"}]},{"given":"Emilie","family":"Murphy","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA"},{"name":"NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, 8800 Greenbelt Road, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA"}]},{"given":"Inbal","family":"Becker-Reshef","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA"}]},{"given":"Chris","family":"Justice","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA"}]},{"given":"Martin","family":"Claverie","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA"},{"name":"NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, 8800 Greenbelt Road, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA"}]},{"given":"Jyoteshwar","family":"Nagol","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA"}]},{"given":"Ivan","family":"Csiszar","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"NOAA Center for Satellite Applications and Research, College Park, MD 20746, USA"}]},{"given":"Dave","family":"Meyer","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Goddard Earth Science Data and Information Services Center (GES DISC), NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, 8800 Greenbelt Road, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA"}]},{"given":"Frederic","family":"Baret","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"INRA, Unite\u0301 Environnement Me\u0301diterrane\u0301en et Mode\u0301lisation des Agro-Hydrosyste\u0300mes (UMR1114), Domaine St Paul, Site Agroparc, 84914 Avignon CEDEX 09, France"}]},{"given":"Edward","family":"Masuoka","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, 8800 Greenbelt Road, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA"}]},{"given":"Robert","family":"Wolfe","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, 8800 Greenbelt Road, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA"}]},{"given":"Sadashiva","family":"Devadiga","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Science Systems and Applications Inc., Lanham, MD 20706, USA"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2017,3,21]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"457","DOI":"10.1016\/j.rse.2014.10.012","article-title":"Reconstruction of a complete global time series of daily vegetation index trajectory from long-term AVHRR data","volume":"156","author":"Zhang","year":"2015","journal-title":"Remote Sens. 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