Aerosols in urban areas: Optical properties and impact on the signal incident to an airborne high-spatial resolution camera

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7107, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Thomas, Colin ^a,b   Briottet, Xavier ^a   Santer, Richard ^c   Lacherade, Sophie ^a  

^a ONERA   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DU LITTORAL CÔTE D OPALE   (France)

Author keywords

AERONET; Aerosol; High spatial resolution; Radiative transfer; Shadow; Urban area

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; CAMERAS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; RADIATIVE TRANSFER;

AERONET; ATMOSPHERIC SCATTERING; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER CODES; RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION; SHADOW; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; URBAN AREAS;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 57749121869     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.800001     Document Type: Conference Paper

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