A Robust Satellite Technique (RST) for dust storm detection and monitoring: The CASE of 2009 Australian event

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1707-1709

  Tramutoli, V ^a,b   Filizzola, C ^b   Marchese, F ^b   Mazzeo, G ^a   Paciello, R ^b   Pergola, N ^a,b   Pietrapertosa, C ^b   Sannazzaro, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dust storm; MTSAT 1R; RST

Indexed keywords

DUST; REMOTE SENSING; STORMS;

AUSTRALIA; DUST STORM; ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS; MTSAT-1R; MULTI-FUNCTIONAL; SATELLITE DATA; SPLIT WINDOWS;

GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES;

EID: 78650933143     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2010.5650621     Document Type: Conference Paper

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