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![Figure 1. USDA NRCS soil taxonomy and selected study areas. Other classes, such as rocky land, shifting sand, and ice or glacier, are not included in the map.](/cms/asset/cfb79867-9119-40d6-9257-7a7a371f840c/tjde_a_783129_f0001_oc.jpg)
Table 1. Geographic locations for data used to develop the BBE retrieval algorithm for both bare soils and transition zones.
![Figure 4. Scatter plot and difference histogram of BBE derived from MODIS albedos and BBE calculated through Equation (1).](/cms/asset/bc8666fa-81ff-4514-8b59-a04e29db2a96/tjde_a_783129_f0004_oc.jpg)
![Figure 5. Scatter plot and difference histogram of BBE derived from MODIS albedos and BBE calculated through Equation (2).](/cms/asset/1d0df151-58f9-4200-ad9d-47b532140225/tjde_a_783129_f0005_oc.jpg)
![Figure 6. Scatter plot and difference histogram of BBE derived from MODIS albedos and BBE calculated through Equation (3).](/cms/asset/6f90be14-53ad-4614-9add-6de51ea9d407/tjde_a_783129_f0006_oc.jpg)
![Figure 7. Scatter plot and difference histogram of BBE derived from MODIS albedos and BBE calculated through Equation (4).](/cms/asset/503614f5-dab2-4dcb-b25d-d2567c8a2aba/tjde_a_783129_f0007_oc.jpg)
![Figure 8. Scatter plot and difference histogram of BBE derived from MODIS albedos and BBE calculated through Equation (5).](/cms/asset/3c085890-840e-49da-a7fa-e7063d68b5bb/tjde_a_783129_f0008_oc.jpg)
![Figure 9. Difference histograms of BBE derived from MODIS data and BBE calculated through Equations (1) (left) and (2) (right).](/cms/asset/8aa716e1-c6e5-4357-a508-ce2639002eee/tjde_a_783129_f0009_oc.jpg)
![Figure 10. Difference histograms of BBE derived from MODIS data and BBE calculated through Equations (4) (left) and (5) (right).](/cms/asset/179615fc-16e1-48ba-9f74-9d617fb351ae/tjde_a_783129_f0010_oc.jpg)
![Figure 11. Difference histograms of BBE derived from MODIS data and BBE calculated through Equation (3).](/cms/asset/4bdaa7ba-c0e3-4b51-be44-62dff9b929b7/tjde_a_783129_f0011_oc.jpg)
![Figure 12. Difference histograms of BBE derived from MODIS albedos and BBE derived through the NDVI threshold method for vertisols (left) and for the remaining 11 soil orders (right).](/cms/asset/75a929d2-e906-4a6b-ba55-6e866d7e06b3/tjde_a_783129_f0012_oc.jpg)
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