Paper Info
Title
Estimation of Optical Properties of Asian Dust over the Land Surface by Polarization Measurements
Abstract
It is very difficult to extract optical properties of the widely spread hazy dust from satellite data over the land surface because the radiance received by a satellite sensor strongly depends on the surface reflectance. In this study, optical properties of the Asian dust, such as the optical thickness (t), the complex refractive index (Nr + iNi), the number size distribution of dust particles (index of Junge power-law, a) and the target reflectance (A), are estimated from PODER data and ground-based polarization measurement data. First of all, the values of t, Nr, a and A are estimated at the 670 nm channel. Then, using the value of a (size distribution) and Nr obtained at 670 nm, the values of t, A and Ni at 443 nm are estimated from grand-based polarization measurement data. This method is applied to POLDER data taken on May 3, 2003 and ground-based polarization data measured at the almost same time as the overpass of the satellite.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1109/IGARSS.2008.4779511
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2008. IGARSS 2008. IEEE International
Keywords
Field
DocType
aerosols,atmospheric measuring apparatus,atmospheric optics,light polarisation,reflectivity,refractive index,remote sensing,Asian dust optical properties,POLDER,complex refractive index,ground-based polarization measurement,land surface,number size distribution,optical thickness,surface reflectance,target reflectance,POLDER,optical properties of aerosols,polarization Asian dust
Atmospheric optics,Satellite,Optical depth,Computer science,Remote sensing,Asian Dust,Polarization (waves),Optics,Optical polarization,Radiance,Refractive index
Conference
Volume
ISBN
Citations 
3
978-1-4244-2808-3
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
1
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Takashi Kusaka156.50
Hiroto Kitaguchi200.34