Aerosol optical thickness determination by exploiting the synergy of TERRA and AQUA MODIS

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 327-334

  Tang, Jiakui ^a   Xue, Yong ^a,b   Yu, Tong ^c   Guan, Yanning ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF REMOTE SENSING APPLICATIONS   (China)

^b LONDON METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c Beijing Municipal Environmental Monitoring Center   (China)

Author keywords

Aerosol optical thickness; Aerosol retrieval; AQUA; MODIS; TERRA

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERICS; DATA REDUCTION; LANDFORMS; LIGHT REFLECTION; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT; VEGETATION;

AEROSOL DISTRIBUTION; AEROSOL RETRIEVAL; DARK DENSE VEGETATION (DDV) ALGORITHMS; HIGH-REFLECTIVE SURFACES; SYNERGY;

AEROSOLS;

AEROSOL PROPERTY; ALGORITHM; MODIS; OPTICAL DEPTH; REMOTE SENSING; SURFACE REFLECTANCE;

EID: 12344299772     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2004.09.013     Document Type: Article

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