Aerosol optical thickness trends and population growth in the Indian subcontinent

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 32, Issue 24, 2011, Pages 9137-9149

  Kishcha, Pavel ^a   Starobinets, Boris ^a   Kalashnikova, Olga ^b   Alpert, Pinhas ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; AIR QUALITY; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

AEROSOL OPTICAL THICKNESS; INDIAN SUBCONTINENTS; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; POPULATION DENSITIES; POPULATION GROWTH; QUALITY DETERIORATIONS; SPECTRO-RADIOMETERS; WORLD POPULATION;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

AEROSOL PROPERTY; AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; MODIS; OPTICAL PROPERTY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION GROWTH; RADIOMETER; SATELLITE DATA; URBANIZATION;

INDIA;

EID: 82155170630     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2010.550333     Document Type: Article

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