Sand and dust storm detection over desert regions in china with MODIS measurements

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 32, Issue 24, 2011, Pages 9365-9373

  Xu, Dan ^a,b   Qu, John J ^b   Niu, Shengjie ^a   Hao, Xianjun ^b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARID REGIONS; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; STORMS;

ARID AND SEMI-ARID REGIONS; CLOUD MASK ALGORITHMS; GROUND OBSERVATIONS; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCES; REMOTE SENSING DATA; SAND AND DUST STORMS; UNDERLYING SURFACE;

DUST;

ALGORITHM; ARID REGION; DESERT; DUST STORM; MODIS; REMOTE SENSING; SAND; SEMIARID REGION;

CANADA; CHINA; GOBI DESERT; NEI MONGGOL; PACIFIC OCEAN; TAKLIMAKAN DESERT; UNITED STATES; XINJIANG UYGUR;

EID: 82155170625     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2011.556679     Document Type: Article

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