Detection of Asia dust storms using multisensor satellite measurements

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 110, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 186-191

  Huang, Jianping ^a   Ge, Jinming ^a   Weng, Fuzhong ^b  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

Author keywords

Asia dust storm; Infrared measurements; Microwave measurements; Multisensors

Indexed keywords

DUST; IMAGE RESOLUTION; LUMINANCE; MICROWAVE MEASUREMENT; RADIOMETERS; SENSOR DATA FUSION;

ASIA DUST STORM; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE DIFFERENCE (BTD); INFRARED MEASUREMENTS; MICROWAVE MEASUREMENTS;

STORMS;

DETECTION METHOD; DUST STORM; INFRARED IMAGERY; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; MODIS; SATELLITE SENSOR;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 34547493325     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2007.02.022     Document Type: Article

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