Improved algorithm for MODIS satellite retrievals of aerosol optical thickness over land in dusty atmosphere: Implications for air quality monitoring in China

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 114, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2575-2583

  Wang, Jun ^a,b   Xu, Xiaoguang ^a   Spurr, Robert ^c   Wang, Yuxuang ^d   Drury, Easan ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c RT Solutions Inc   (United States)

^d TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Air quality in China; Atmospheric correction in dusty condition; Particulate matter air quality; Remote sensing of aerosols

Indexed keywords

AERONET; AEROSOL OPTICAL THICKNESS; AEROSOL SINGLE SCATTERING; AIR QUALITY MODELING; AIR QUALITY MONITORING; ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTION IN DUSTY CONDITION; CHEMISTRY TRANSPORT MODEL; DUST EFFECT; GROUND OBSERVATIONS; IMPROVED ALGORITHM; JACOBIANS; LOCAL SURFACES; LOWER ENVELOPES; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER SATELLITES; NEAR INFRARED; PARTICULATE MATTER; REFLECTANCE DATA; REFLECTANCE RATIO; SATELLITE RETRIEVAL; SINGLE SCATTERING PROPERTIES; STRONG CORRELATION; SURFACE REFLECTANCE; TIME-PERIODS; TOP OF ATMOSPHERES; VECTOR RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODELS;

AIR QUALITY; ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DUST; INFRARED DEVICES; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; RADIOMETERS; REFLECTION; REMOTE SENSING;

SATELLITE IMAGERY;

AEROSOL PROPERTY; AIR QUALITY; ALGORITHM; ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTION; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; DUST; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EOS; MODIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTICAL DEPTH; PIXEL; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REFLECTANCE; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA;

CHINA;

EID: 77955585090     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2010.05.034     Document Type: Article

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