Comparison of three years of Terra and Aqua MODIS aerosol optical thickness over the global oceans

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 537-540

  Remer, Lorraine A ^a   Kaufman, Yoram J ^a   Kleidman, Richard G ^b  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerosol optical thickness (AOT); Aerosols; Aqua; Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS); Remote sensing; Satellite; Terra; Time series

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEMS; OCEAN ENGINEERING; REMOTE SENSING; SPECTROMETERS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

AEROSOL OPTICAL THICKNESS (AOT); AQUA; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER (MODIS); TERRA;

RADIOMETERS;

EID: 33750586943     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2006.879562     Document Type: Article

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