An evaluation of satellite aerosol products against sunphotometer measurements

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 115, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3102-3111

  Bréon, Francois Marie ^a   Vermeulen, Anne ^b   Descloitres, Jacques ^b  

^a LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^b Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales   (France)

Author keywords

Aerosol; Atmosphere; Remote sensing; Sunphotometer; Validation

Indexed keywords

AERONET; AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTHS; AEROSOL PRODUCT; DATA SETS; ERROR BUDGETS; GLOBAL SCALE; GROUND STATIONS; HIGH TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; MERIS PRODUCTS; POSITIVE BIAS; REFLECTANCE MEASUREMENTS; RELIABLE ESTIMATES; SERVICE CENTRES; SPACEBORNE RADIOMETERS; SPATIO-TEMPORAL AVERAGING; STATISTICAL COMPARISONS; STATISTICAL INDICATORS; SUN PHOTOMETERS; VALIDATION;

AEROSOLS; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; ERROR STATISTICS; ESTIMATION; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; RADIOMETERS; RANDOM ERRORS; REMOTE SENSING; STATISTICS;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AEROSOL; MEASUREMENT METHOD; PHOTOMETER; POLARIZATION; REFLECTANCE; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SATELLITE SENSOR; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; THRESHOLD;

EID: 79958178400     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2011.06.017     Document Type: Article

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