Evaluation of the aerosol models for SeaWiFS and MODIS by AERONET data over open oceans

Applied Optics

Volumn 50, Issue 22, 2011, Pages 4353-4364

  He, Xianqiang ^a,b   Pan, Delu ^a   Bai, Yan ^a   Zhu, Qiankun ^a   Gong, Fang ^a  

^a Ministry of Natural Resources of the People's Republic of China   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; BAND STRUCTURE; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

AEROSOL OPTICAL PROPERTY; AEROSOL OPTICAL THICKNESS; AEROSOL ROBOTIC NETWORKS; ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTION ALGORITHM; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; SCATTERING PHASE FUNCTION; SEA-VIEWING WIDE FIELD-OF-VIEW SENSORS; SENSOR PERFORMANCE;

AEROSOLS;

EID: 79961077033     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.50.004353     Document Type: Article

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