Simultaneous retrieval of aerosol and surface properties from a combination of AERONET and satellite data

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 107, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 90-108

  Sinyuk, Alexander ^a,b   Dubovik, Oleg ^a   Holben, Brent ^a   Eck, Tom F ^a,c   Breon, Francois Marie ^d   Martonchik, John ^e   Kahn, Ralph ^e   Diner, David J ^e   Vermote, Eric F ^f   Roger, Jean Claude ^a,f,g   Lapyonok, Tatyana ^a,b   Slutsker, Ilya ^a,b  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^d LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^g Laboratoire d Océanologie et de Géosciences   (France)

Author keywords

AERONET; Aerosol properties; MISR; MODIS; POLDER; Surface reflectance

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA ACQUISITION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; SATELLITE OBSERVATORIES; SMOKE; SURFACE PROPERTIES; WEATHER SATELLITES;

AERONET; BIDIRECTIONAL REFLECTANCE FACTORS (BRF); ERROR BARS; INVERSION ALGORITHMS; MISR; MODIS; POLDER; SURFACE REFLECTANCE;

AEROSOLS;

AEROSOL; AEROSOL PROPERTY; ALBEDO; ALGORITHM; INVERSE ANALYSIS; MODIS; OPTICAL DEPTH; OPTICAL PROPERTY; POLDER; RADIANCE; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SATELLITE DATA; SURFACE REFLECTANCE; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

AFRICA; ASIA; EURASIA; MIDDLE EAST; MONGU; SAUDI ARABIA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WESTERN PROVINCE [ZAMBIA]; ZAMBIA;

EID: 33846933739     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2006.07.022     Document Type: Article

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