An infrared desert dust index for the Along-Track Scanning Radiometers

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 116, Issue , 2012, Pages 159-176

  Good, E J ^a   Kong, X ^a   Embury, O ^b   Merchant, C J ^b   Remedios, J J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Along Track Scanning Radiometer; Saharan dust; Sea surface temperature; Thermal remote sensing; Tropospheric aerosol

Indexed keywords

2-D SPACE; AEROSOL DETECTION; AEROSOL INDEX; AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTHS; ALONG-TRACK SCANNING RADIOMETERS; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE DIFFERENCE; DATA RECORDS; DESERT DUST; DUST LOADING; EFFECTIVE TOOL; MINERAL DUST; NIGHT TIME; OFF-AXIS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT; SAHARAN DUST; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SINGLE-AXIS; THERMAL INFRARED CHANNELS; TROPOSPHERIC AEROSOLS;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; DUST; LANDFORMS; OPTICAL CORRELATION; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; SCANNING; SUN; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

AEROSOL PROPERTY; ALONG TRACK SCANNING RADIOMETER; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; DESERT; DUST; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INDEX METHOD; NADIR; OPTICAL DEPTH; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SOLAR RADIATION; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 82955195899     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2010.06.016     Document Type: Article

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