Developing a new automated tool for detecting and monitoring dust and sand storms using MODIS and METEOSAT SEVIRI-MSG data

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn 4, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Ghedira, Hosni ^a   Al Rais, Adnan ^b   Al Suwaidi, Ali ^b  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN DUBAI   (United Arab Emirates)

^b Emirates Institution for Advanced Science and Technology EIAST   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Meteosat; MODIS; NASA Geovanni tool; Sandstorms

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC DUST; AUTOMATED TOOLS; DESERT AREA; EARTH OBSERVATION SATELLITES; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GLOBAL CLIMATES; GROUND MEASUREMENTS; GROUND-BASED MONITORING; INDISPENSABLE TOOLS; LOCAL ENVIRONMENTS; METEOSAT; MODIS; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; PRECIPITATION RATES; REFLECTING SURFACE; SAND STORMS; SHALLOW LAYERS; TEMPORAL SCALE; VEGETATION STRESS;

ARID REGIONS; DUST; GEOLOGY; NASA; OBSERVATORIES; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; SPECTROMETERS; STORMS;

MONITORING;

EID: 77951264785     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2009.5417524     Document Type: Conference Paper

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