Multisensor data product fusion for aerosol research

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1407-1415

  Gupta, Pawan ^a   Patadia, Falguni ^a   Christopher, Sundar A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerosol forcing; Aerosols; Climate; Clouds and the earth's radiant energy system (CERES); Data fusion; Moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer (MODIS); Multi angle imaging spectroradiometer (MISR)

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ATMOSPHERICS; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; NASA; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITES; SENSOR NETWORKS; SENSORS; SPECTROMETERS;

AEROSOL FORCING; CLIMATE; CLOUDS AND THE EARTH'S RADIANT ENERGY SYSTEM (CERES); DATA FUSION; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER (MODIS); MULTI-ANGLE IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER (MISR);

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS;

EID: 44249126423     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2008.916087     Document Type: Article

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