Access, Visualization, and Interoperability of Air Quality Remote Sensing Data Sets via the Giovanni Online Tool

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 359-370

  Prados, Ana I ^a   Leptoukh, Gregory ^b   Lynnes, Chris ^b   Johnson, James ^b   Rui, Hualan ^b   Chen, Aijun ^c   Husar, Rudolf B ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Air quality; interoperability; remote sensing

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL MEASUREMENT; AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTHS; AEROSOL PRODUCT; AIR QUALITY DATA; CALIPSO; DATA NETWORKING; DATA SETS; DATA SHARING; GROUND-BASED DATA; INTERCOMPARISONS; MODEL OUTPUTS; ON-LINE TOOLS; REMOTE SENSING DATA; SATELLITE INSTRUMENTS; SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING; SERVICE ORIENTED; SURFACE OBSERVATION; WEB-BASED TOOLS;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; DECISION MAKING; INTERNET PROTOCOLS; INTEROPERABILITY; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; VISUALIZATION;

DATA VISUALIZATION;

AEROSOL; AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; DATA SET; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; PARTICULATE MATTER; REMOTE SENSING; SULFUR DIOXIDE; VISUALIZATION; WORLD WIDE WEB;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 77956197934     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2010.2047940     Document Type: Article

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