AERONET - A federated instrument network and data archive for aerosol characterization

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-16

  Holben, Brent N ^a   Eck, T F ^a   Slutsker, I ^a   Tanre D ^b   Buis, J P ^c   Setzer, A ^d   Vermote, E ^h   Reagan, J A ^e   Kaufman, Y J ^a   Nakajima, T ^f   Lavenu, F ^g   Jankowiak, I ^b   Smirnov, A ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille   (France)

^c CIMEL Electronique   (France)

^d INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^g ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^h Ecole Normale Superieure ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; INTERNET; MULTISPECTRAL SCANNERS; RADIOMETERS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; UNIX;

AEROSOL MONITORING NETWORK;

REMOTE SENSING;

AEROSOL PROPERTY; DATABASE; GOES; INTERNET; METEOSAT; MONITORING SYSTEM;

EID: 0032183197     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-4257(98)00031-5     Document Type: Article

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