Validation and analysis of aerosol optical thickness retrieval over land

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 781-803

  Mei, Linlu ^a,b   Xue, Yong ^a,c   Xu, Hui ^a,b   Guang, Jie ^a   Li, Yingjie ^a,b   Wang, Ying ^a,b   Ai, Jianwen ^d   Jiang, Shuzheng ^e   He, Xingwei ^a,b  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c LONDON METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d Guangdong Electronic Industry Institute   (China)

^e SHANDONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PIXELS; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

AEROSOL OPTICAL THICKNESS; AEROSOL OPTICAL THICKNESS RETRIEVAL; AEROSOL ROBOTIC NETWORKS; DENSE VEGETATION; GROUND BASED MEASUREMENT; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER DATUM; SPATIAL SENSITIVITY; TERRA AND AQUA MODIS;

NASA;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AEROSOL; ALGORITHM; AQUA (SATELLITE); DATA SET; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; MODEL VALIDATION; MODIS; OPTICAL DEPTH; PARAMETERIZATION; PIXEL; TERRA (SATELLITE);

EID: 84863229901     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2011.577831     Document Type: Article

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