High-resolution NO 2 remote sensing from the Airborne Prism EXperiment (APEX) imaging spectrometer

Atmospheric Measurement Techniques

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2211-2225

  Popp, C ^a   Brunner, D ^a   Damm, A ^b   Van Roozendael, M ^c   Fayt, C ^c   Buchmann, B ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c BELGIAN INSTITUTE FOR SPACE AERONOMY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE SENSING; DATA SET; IMAGING METHOD; MAP; METEOROLOGY; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPECTROMETER;

EID: 84867953019     PISSN: 18671381     EISSN: 18678548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/amt-5-2211-2012     Document Type: Article

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