Classification of dust days by satellite remotely sensed aerosol products

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 2672-2688

  Sorek Hamer, M ^a   Cohen, A ^a   Levy, R C ^b   Ziv, B ^c   Broday, D M ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c OPEN UNIVERSITY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; BINARY TREES; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COST EFFECTIVENESS; DUST; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; RADIOMETERS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TREES (MATHEMATICS); ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROMETERS;

AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTHS; CLASSIFICATION AND REGRESSION TREE MODELS; COMPOSITIONAL ANALYSIS; EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN; INDEPENDENT VARIABLES; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; OZONE MONITORING INSTRUMENTS; SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING;

PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER);

AEROSOL; CLASSIFICATION; DUST; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; MODEL VALIDATION; MODIS; MONITORING SYSTEM; OPTICAL DEPTH; PARTICULATE MATTER; PREDICTION; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

ISRAEL; MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

EID: 84875851295     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2012.748991     Document Type: Article

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