Satellite-derived determination of PM10 concentration and of the associated risk on public health

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5235, Issue , 2004, Pages 408-416

  Sarigiannis, Dimosthenis ^a   Sifakis, Nicolaos I ^b   Soulakellis, Nikos ^c   Tombrou, Maria ^d   Schäfer, Klaus ^e  

^a EUROPEAN COMMISSION   (Belgium)

^b NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^e KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Health risk; Information fusion; Tropospheric aerosol; Ultrafine particles

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ACQUISITION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; HEALTH RISKS; INFORMATION SCIENCE; INTEGRATION; SATELLITES; TROPOSPHERE;

INFORMATION FUSION; TROPOSPHERIC AEROSOL; ULTRAFINE PARTICLES;

AEROSOLS;

EID: 1942516433     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.520450     Document Type: Conference Paper

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