Impact of Aerosols on Scene Collection and Scene Correction

Impact of Aerosols on Scene Collection and Scene Correction
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Total Pages: 135
Release: 2009
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Airborne aerosols contaminate satellite imagery, making it difficult for analysts to characterize surface targets. The amount of contamination is due to aerosol loading, best quantified by aerosol optical depth (AOD). Level 2 AERONET data provides "ground truth" AOD measurements. Unfortunately, targets are not likely to be near an AERONET station. This thesis examines two methods of quantifying AOD in lieu of AERONET data: Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) AOD retrievals and Navy Aerosol Analysis and Prediction System (NAAPS) AOD forecasts (with MODIS data assimilation). Over the Persian Gulf and Japan, MODIS accurately retrieved AOD at 0.55 micrometers wavelength. MODIS may have accurately retrieved AOD over Korea, but uncertainty in the retrieval was high due to a small sample size. Over West Africa, MODIS underestimated AOD. Over the Persian Gulf and Japan, NAAPS accurately estimated AOD at 0.55 micrometers. Over Korea, the model displayed mixed results. Finally, over West Africa, NAAPS tended to underestimate AOD.

Remote Sensing Handbook - Three Volume Set

Remote Sensing Handbook - Three Volume Set
Author: Prasad Thenkabail
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 2304
Release: 2018-10-03
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1482282674

A volume in the three-volume Remote Sensing Handbook series, Remote Sensing of Water Resources, Disasters, and Urban Studies documents the scientific and methodological advances that have taken place during the last 50 years. The other two volumes in the series are Remotely Sensed Data Characterization, Classification, and Accuracies, and Land Reso

Remotely Sensed Data Characterization, Classification, and Accuracies

Remotely Sensed Data Characterization, Classification, and Accuracies
Author: Ph.D., Prasad S. Thenkabail
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 698
Release: 2015-10-02
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1482217872

A volume in the Remote Sensing Handbook series, Remotely Sensed Data Characterization, Classification, and Accuracies documents the scientific and methodological advances that have taken place during the last 50 years. The other two volumes in the series are Land Resources Monitoring, Modeling, and Mapping with Remote Sensing, and Remote Sensing of

Aerosol Remote Sensing

Aerosol Remote Sensing
Author: Jacqueline Lenoble
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 423
Release: 2013-02-11
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3642177255

This book gives a much needed explanation of the basic physical principles of radiative transfer and remote sensing, and presents all the instruments and retrieval algorithms in a homogenous manner. The editors provide, for the first time, an easy path from theory to practical algorithms in one easily accessible volume, making the connection between theoretical radiative transfer and individual practical solutions to retrieve aerosol information from remote sensing, and providing the specifics and intercomparison of all current and historical retrieval methods.

Advanced Remote Sensing

Advanced Remote Sensing
Author: Shunlin Liang
Publisher: Academic Press
Total Pages: 821
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0123859557

Advanced Remote Sensing is an application-based reference that provides a single source of mathematical concepts necessary for remote sensing data gathering and assimilation. It presents state-of-the-art techniques for estimating land surface variables from a variety of data types, including optical sensors such as RADAR and LIDAR. Scientists in a number of different fields including geography, geology, atmospheric science, environmental science, planetary science and ecology will have access to critically-important data extraction techniques and their virtually unlimited applications. While rigorous enough for the most experienced of scientists, the techniques are well designed and integrated, making the book's content intuitive, clearly presented, and practical in its implementation. - Comprehensive overview of various practical methods and algorithms - Detailed description of the principles and procedures of the state-of-the-art algorithms - Real-world case studies open several chapters - More than 500 full-color figures and tables - Edited by top remote sensing experts with contributions from authors across the geosciences

Multisensor Data Fusion and Machine Learning for Environmental Remote Sensing

Multisensor Data Fusion and Machine Learning for Environmental Remote Sensing
Author: Ni-Bin Chang
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 508
Release: 2018-02-21
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1498774342

In the last few years the scientific community has realized that obtaining a better understanding of interactions between natural systems and the man-made environment across different scales demands more research efforts in remote sensing. An integrated Earth system observatory that merges surface-based, air-borne, space-borne, and even underground sensors with comprehensive and predictive capabilities indicates promise for revolutionizing the study of global water, energy, and carbon cycles as well as land use and land cover changes. The aim of this book is to present a suite of relevant concepts, tools, and methods of integrated multisensor data fusion and machine learning technologies to promote environmental sustainability. The process of machine learning for intelligent feature extraction consists of regular, deep, and fast learning algorithms. The niche for integrating data fusion and machine learning for remote sensing rests upon the creation of a new scientific architecture in remote sensing science that is designed to support numerical as well as symbolic feature extraction managed by several cognitively oriented machine learning tasks at finer scales. By grouping a suite of satellites with similar nature in platform design, data merging may come to help for cloudy pixel reconstruction over the space domain or concatenation of time series images over the time domain, or even both simultaneously. Organized in 5 parts, from Fundamental Principles of Remote Sensing; Feature Extraction for Remote Sensing; Image and Data Fusion for Remote Sensing; Integrated Data Merging, Data Reconstruction, Data Fusion, and Machine Learning; to Remote Sensing for Environmental Decision Analysis, the book will be a useful reference for graduate students, academic scholars, and working professionals who are involved in the study of Earth systems and the environment for a sustainable future. The new knowledge in this book can be applied successfully in many areas of environmental science and engineering.

The Remote Sensing of Tropospheric Composition from Space

The Remote Sensing of Tropospheric Composition from Space
Author: John P. Burrows
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 576
Release: 2011-01-15
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3642147917

The impact of anthropogenic activities on our atmospheric environment is of growing public concern and satellite-based techniques now provide an essential component of observational strategies on regional and global scales. The purpose of this book is to summarise the state of the art in the field in general, while describing both key techniques and findings in particular. It opens with an historical perspective of the field together with the basic principles of remote sensing from space. Three chapters follow on the techniques and on the solutions to the problems associated with the various spectral regions in which observations are made. The particular challenges posed by aerosols and clouds are covered in the next two chapters. Of special importance is the accuracy and reliability of remote sensing data and these issues are covered in a chapter on validation. The final section of the book is concerned with the exploitation of data, with chapters on observational aspects, which includes both individual and synergistic studies, and on the comparison of global and regional observations with chemical transport and climate models and the added value that the interaction brings to both. The book concludes with scientific needs and likely future developments in the field, and the necessary actions to be taken if we are to have the global observation system that the Earth needs in its present, deteriorating state. The appendices provide a comprehensive list of satellite instruments, global representations of some ancillary data such as fire counts and light pollution, a list of abbreviations and acronyms, and a set of colourful timelines indicating the satellite coverage of tropospheric composition in the foreseeable future. Altogether, this book will be a timely reference and overview for anyone working at the interface of environmental, atmospheric and space sciences.

Hyperspectral Satellites and System Design

Hyperspectral Satellites and System Design
Author: Shen-En Qian
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 865
Release: 2020-04-22
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0429561172

Hyperspectral Satellites and System Design is the first book on this subject. It provides a systematic analysis and detailed design of the entire development process of hyperspectral satellites. Derived from the author’s 25-year firsthand experience as a technical lead of space missions at the Canadian Space Agency, the book offers engineers, scientists, and decision-makers detailed knowledge and guidelines on hyperspectral satellite system design, trade-offs, performance modeling and simulation, optimization from component to system level, subsystem design, and implementation strategies. This information will help reduce the risk, shorten the development period, and lower the cost of hyperspectral satellite missions. This book is a must-have reference for professionals in developing hyperspectral satellites and data applications. It is also an excellent introductory book for early practitioners and students who want to learn more about hyperspectral satellites and their applications.