The use of AVHRR data to determine the concentration of visible and invisible tropospheric pollutants originating from a 1997 forest fire in Southeast Asia

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 25, Issue 21, 2004, Pages 4781-4794

  Hashim, Mazlan ^a   Kanniah, K D ^a   Ahmad, A ^a   Rasib, A W ^a   Ibrahim, A L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; CARBON; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FIRE HAZARDS; INFRARED RADIATION; MULTISPECTRAL SCANNERS; NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; OZONE; PARTICULATE EMISSIONS; RADIOMETRY; SATELLITES; SULFUR;

ADVANCED VERY HIGH RESOLUTION RADIOMETER (AVHRR); FIRE POLLUTANTS; FOREST FIRES; NEAR INFRARED REGIONS;

REMOTE SENSING;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; AVHRR; CARBON MONOXIDE; FOREST FIRE; PARTICULATE MATTER; SULFUR DIOXIDE; TROPOSPHERE;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; WORLD;

EID: 8744311832     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431160410001712963     Document Type: Article

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