Retrieval of aerosol optical thickness using MODIS 500 × 500m 2, a study in Hong Kong and the Pearl River Delta region

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 3318-3327

  Wong, Man Sing ^a   Lee, Kwon Ho ^b   Nichol, Janet Elizabeth ^a   Li, Zhanqing ^c  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b Kyungil University   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerosols; air pollution; remote sensing

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL DETECTION; AEROSOL OPTICAL THICKNESS; AEROSOL PROPERTIES; AEROSOL RETRIEVAL; AEROSOL RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS; AEROSOL ROBOTIC NETWORKS; DRY SEASONS; FINE RESOLUTION; GLOBAL SCALE; HIGHLY-CORRELATED; HONG-KONG; LAND SURFACE; LOOK UP TABLE; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; PEARL RIVER DELTA REGION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER CALCULATIONS; RAYLEIGH; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SOURCE AREA; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SUN PHOTOMETERS; SURFACE REFLECTANCE; TOP OF ATMOSPHERES;

AIR QUALITY; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; RADIOMETERS; REFLECTION; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS;

AEROSOL PROPERTY; ALGORITHM; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; LAND SURFACE; MODIS; OPTICAL DEPTH; PHOTOMETER; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REFLECTANCE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; URBAN AREA;

CHINA; GUANGDONG; HONG KONG; ZHUJIANG DELTA;

EID: 77954758937     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2010.2045124     Document Type: Article

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