Satellite Remote Sensing and Mesoscale Modeling of the 2007 Georgia/Florida Fires

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

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 163-175

  Christopher, Sundar A ^a   Gupta, Pawan ^a   Nair, U ^a   Jones, Thomas A ^a   Wu, Yu Ling ^a   Kondragunta, Shobha ^b   Zhang, Xiaoyang ^b   Hand, Jenny ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

^b OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Remote sensing; satellite applications

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMIC DIAMETERS; AEROSOL OPTICAL THICKNESS; BACKGROUND VALUE; BIRMINGHAM; CARBON CONCENTRATIONS; DIURNAL VARIABILITY; EXTREME EVENTS; FIRE EMISSIONS; FIRE EVENT; FIRE LOCATIONS; FLORIDA; GEORGIA; GROUND BASED; LINEAR CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; MASS CONCENTRATION; MESOSCALE MODELING; MESOSCALE TRANSPORT; PARTICULATE MATTER; PM2.5 MASS; POLAR-ORBITING; POLAR-ORBITING SATELLITES; SATELLITE APPLICATIONS; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SATELLITE PRODUCTS; SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING; SMOKE AEROSOLS; SOURCE REGION; SPACE-BORNE SENSOR; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FIRE HAZARDS; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; MODELS; ORGANIC CARBON; REMOTE SENSING; SMOKE; SPACE OPTICS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

FIRES;

AEROSOL FORMATION; AIR QUALITY; DIURNAL VARIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; EXTREME EVENT; FIRE HISTORY; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITE; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; MODELING; OPTICAL DEPTH; ORGANIC CARBON; PARTICULATE MATTER; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SMOKE; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; GEORGIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77957743457     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2009.2026626     Document Type: Article

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