Retrieving Aerosol Optical Thickness (AOT) over the desert of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) using MSG/SEVIRI infrared measurements

Author

Gherboudj, Imen ; Ghedira, Hosni

Author_Institution

Earth Obs. & Environ. Remote Sensing Lab., MASDAR Inst. of Sci. & Technol., Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

fYear

2012

fDate

22-27 July 2012

Firstpage

4213

Lastpage

4216

Abstract

In this paper, an empirical model is proposed to retrieve the Aerosol Optical Thickness (AOT) and Water Vapor from the thermal bands differences over desert area. The model was developed using database ground measurements constructed from the AERONET measurements and MSG/SEVIRI satellites collected over some locations in the desert of the United Arab of Emirates (UAE) between 2004 to 2010. An independent dataset is used for the validation of the proposed model. The fair results were obtained for the retrieval of both the Aerosol optical thickness and water vapor.

Keywords

aerosols; atmospheric humidity; atmospheric optics; atmospheric temperature; remote sensing; AD 2004 to 2010; AERONET measurements; MSG-SEVIRI infrared measurement; MSG-SEVIRI satellites; United Arab Emirates; aerosol optical thickness; database ground measurements; thermal bands; water vapor; Adaptive optics; Aerosols; Atmospheric measurements; Mathematical model; Optical sensors; Optical variables measurement; Satellites; AERONET; MSG/SEVIRI; arid; dust; retrieval; thermal-bands;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2012 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Munich

ISSN

2153-6996

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1160-1

Electronic_ISBN

2153-6996

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6351739

Filename

6351739