Remote identification and quantification of industrial smokestack effluents via imaging fourier-transform spectroscopy

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 44, Issue 24, 2010, Pages 9390-9397

  Gross, Kevin C ^a   Bradley, Kenneth C ^a   Perram, Glen P ^a  

^a Air Force Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLUMN DENSITY; CYLINDRICAL GEOMETRY; FOURIER TRANSFORM SPECTROSCOPY; IMAGING FOURIER TRANSFORM SPECTROMETER; IN-SITU; IN-SITU MEASUREMENT; MIDWAVE INFRARED; PATH LENGTH; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL; REMOTE IDENTIFICATION; SINGLE LAYER;

CHIMNEYS; CYLINDERS (SHAPES); EFFLUENTS; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; INDUSTRIAL EMISSIONS; PIXELS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SHIP SMOKESTACKS; SPECTROMETERS;

FOURIER TRANSFORMS;

HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; INDUSTRIAL EFFLUENT;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON MONOXIDE; EFFLUENT; ESTIMATION METHOD; FTIR SPECTROSCOPY; GEOMETRY; HYDROCHLORIC ACID; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; INDUSTRIAL EMISSION; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PIXEL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPECTRAL RESOLUTION; SULFUR DIOXIDE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; VOLUME; WATER;

ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DENSITY; FOURIER TRANSFORM MASS SPECTROMETRY; INDUSTRIAL AREA; MEASUREMENT; PLUME; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

AIR POLLUTANTS; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON MONOXIDE; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HYDROCHLORIC ACID; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NITROGEN OXIDES; REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; STEAM; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

EID: 78650272127     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es101823z     Document Type: Article

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