Title
Masking Of Residual Snow And Ice Covered Surfaces For Improving Aerosol Retrievals From Modis Data
Abstract
Aerosol particles in the atmosphere can affect climate directly by interacting with solar and terrestrial radiation and indirectly by their effect on cloud microphysics, albedo, and precipitation. The atmospheric aerosol products have been derived operationally from multi-channel imaging data collected with the MOderate Resolution Imaging SpectroRadiometers (MODIS) on board the NASA Terra and Aqua spacecrafts. Through analysis of several years' MODIS aerosol products (Collection 4), we have found that the aerosol products over land are slightly contaminated by snow and ice during the springtime snow-melting season. We have developed an empirical technique using MODIS channels centered near 0.66, 0.86 and 1.24 gm and a thermal emission channel near 11 gm to mask out these snow-contaminated pixels over land. Improved aerosol retrievals have been obtained.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1109/IGARSS.2006.578
2006 IEEE INTERNATIONAL GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING SYMPOSIUM, VOLS 1-8
Keywords
Field
DocType
remote sensing,data collection,snow,seasonality,image processing
Atmosphere,Moderate-resolution imaging spectroradiometer,Computer science,Microphysics,Remote sensing,Aerosol,Albedo,Atmospheric sciences,Spectroradiometer,Snow,Precipitation
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2153-6996
0
0.34
References 
Authors
1
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Rong-Rong Li19939.09
Lorraine A. Remer216248.02
Yoram J. Kaufman3527991.96
surendra k mattoo400.34
Bo-Cai Gao5279187.18
Eric F. Vermote6526109.24