Gorkavyi, NickCarn, SimonDeLand, MattKnyazikhin, YuriKrotkov, NickMarshak, AlexanderMyneni, RangaVasilkov, Alexander2022-07-132022-07-13N. Gorkavyi, S. Carn, M. DeLand, Y. Knyazikhin, N. Krotkov, A. Marshak, R. Myneni, A. Vasilkov. "Earth Imaging From the Surface of the Moon With a DSCOVR/EPIC-Type Camera." Frontiers in Remote Sensing, Volume 2, https://doi.org/10.3389/frsen.2021.7240742673-6187https://hdl.handle.net/2144/44873The Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) on the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite observes the entire Sun-illuminated Earth from sunrise to sunset from the L1 Sun-Earth Lagrange point. The L1 location, however, confines the observed phase angles to ∼2°–12°, a nearly backscattering direction, precluding any information on the bidirectional surface reflectance factor (BRF) or cloud/aerosol phase function. Deploying an analog of EPIC on the Moon’s surface would offer a unique opportunity to image the full range of Earth phases, including observing ocean/cloud glint reflection for different phase angles; monitoring of transient volcanic clouds; detection of circum-polar mesospheric and stratospheric clouds; estimating the surface BRF and full phase-angle integrated albedo; and monitoring of vegetation characteristics for different phase angles.en-USCopyright © 2021 Gorkavyi, Carn, DeLand, Knyazikhin, Krotkov, Marshak, Myneni and Vasilkov. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Article10.3389/frsen.2021.724074715291