Monitoring land surface albedo and vegetation dynamics using high spatial and temporal resolution synthetic time series from Landsat and the MODIS BRDF/NBAR/albedo product

•Synthetic time series of albedo and EVI can capture land surface dynamics with high similarity to tower and field data.•The RMSE and bias of the synthetic albedos are <0.013 and within ±0.006, respectively as compared to Ameriflux field data.•Spatially representative NEON albedometer data will greatly improve moderate resolution satellite products validation.