A multisensor approach to dust storm monitoring over the nile delta

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 41, Issue 10 PART II, 2003, Pages 2386-2391

  El Askary, Hesham M ^a   Sarkar, Sudipta ^a   Kafatos, Menas ^a   El Ghazawi, Tarek A ^b  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerosol index; Brightness temperature; Dust storm; Nile delta; Scattering coefficient; Urban areas

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; DUST; IMAGE SENSORS; MICROWAVE DEVICES; SCATTERING; SPECTROMETERS; STORMS;

AEROSOL INDEX; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; DUST STORM; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTROMETER; SCATTERING COEFFICIENT; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSION MICROWAVE IMAGER;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0242386576     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2003.817189     Document Type: Letter

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