Aerosol optical thickness retrieval from AVHRR images over the Athens urban area

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn 4, Issue , 2003, Pages 2182-2184

  Retails, A ^a   Sifakis, N ^a   Grosso, N ^a   Paronis, D ^a   Sarigiannis, D ^b  

^a NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b EUROPEAN COMMISSION   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Aerosol optical thickness; Aerosols; Air pollution; NOAA AVHRR; PM10

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; IMAGE SENSORS; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT;

AEROSOL OPTICAL THICKNESS; IMAGE PREPROCESSING;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0242458268     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (14)

1. B. Holben, E. Vermote, Y. Kaufman, D. Tanre and V. Kalb, Aerosol retrieval overland from AVHRR data - application for atmospheric correction. IEEE Transaction on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 30, No. 2, 212-222, 1992
2. M. D. King, Y.J. Kaufman, D. Tanré, and T. Nakajima, Remote Sensing of Tropospheric Aerosols from Space: Past, Present, and Future, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Vol. 80, No. 11, 2229-2259, 1999
3. M.J. Costa, M. Cervino, E. Cattani, F. Torricella, V. Levizzani, A.M. Silva and S. Melani, Aerosol characterization and optical thickness retrievals using GOME and METEOSAT satellite data. Meteorol. Atmos. Phys., 81, 289-298, 2002.
4. E. Vermote, N. Saleous and B.N. Holben, Aerosol retrieval and atmospheric correction. In G. D'Souza et al. (Eds.), Advances in the use of NOAA AVHRR for land applications (93-124). Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Press, 1996.
5. A. Ignatov and L. Stowe, Aerosol Retrievals from Individual AVHRR Channels. Part I: Retrieval Algorithm and Transition from Dave to 6S Radiative Transfer Model, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 59, 313-334, 2002.
6. Sifakis, N., Soulakellis N., Paronis D., 1998, Quantitative mapping of air pollution density using Earth observations: a new processing method and application to an urban area. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 19, 3289-3300.
7. A. Retalis, C. Cartalis, and E. Athanassiou, Assessment of the distribution of aerosols in the area of Athens with the use of Landsat TM, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 20 (5), 939-945, 1999.
8. L. Wald and J.M. Baleynaud, Observing air quality over the city of Nantes by means of Landsat thermal infrared data. Int. J. Remote Sensing, 5, 947-959, 1999.
9. L. Wald, L. Basly and J.M. Balleynaud, Satellite data for the air pollution mapping, Proceedings of the 18th EARseL symposium on operational sensing for sustainable development (Enschede, Netherlands, 11-14 May 1998), In: Operational Remote Sensing for Sustainable Development (edited by Nieeuwenhuis, G.J.A, Vaugham, R.A., Molenaar, M.), pp.133-139, 1999.
10. Y.J. Kaufman, R.S. Fraser, and R.A. Ferrare, Satellite measurements of large-scale air pollution: methods, Journal of Geophysical Research, 95, 9895-9909, 1990.
11. A.P. Waggoner, R.E. Weiss, N.C. Ahlquist, D.S. Covert, S. Will and R.J. Charlson, Optical characteristics of atmospheric aerosols. Atmos. Environ. 15, 1891-1909, 1981.
12. D. Sarigiannis, N. Soulakellis, K. Schäfer, M. Tombrou, N. Sifakis, D. Assimakopoulos, M. Lointier, E. Bossioli, A. Dantou, M. Saisana, ICAROS: An integrated computational environment for the assimilation of environmental data and models for urban and regional air quality, Water, Air and Soil Pollution: Focus 2(5): 641-654, 2002.
13. MCIDAS, 1998, McIDAS-X 7.5 for Unix User's Guide. Space Science and Engineering Center, University of Wisconsin - Madison.
14. ERDAS, 2001, ERDAS Imagine 8.5 Field Guide. ERDAS Inc., Atlanta, Georgia, USA.