The effect of soil moisture and wind speed on aerosol optical thickness retrieval in a desert environment using SEVIRI thermal channels

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 34, Issue 14, 2013, Pages 5054-5071

  Parajuli, Sagar Prasad ^a   Gherboudj, Imen ^a   Ghedira, Hosni ^a  

^a KHALIFA UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; DUST; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LANDFORMS; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; NEURAL NETWORKS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; SOIL MOISTURE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; WIND;

ADVANCED MICROWAVE SCANNING RADIOMETER-EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEM (AMSR-E); AEROSOL OPTICAL THICKNESS; AEROSOL OPTICAL THICKNESS RETRIEVAL; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK MODELS; METEOSAT SECOND GENERATIONS; MULTIPLE REGRESSION MODEL; NON-LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; SPINNING ENHANCED VISIBLE AND INFRARED IMAGER;

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AEROSOL COMPOSITION; AMSR-E; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; DESERT; DUST; METEOSAT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEVIRI; SOIL MOISTURE; WIND VELOCITY;

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EID: 84876341854     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2013.788262     Document Type: Article

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