Retrieval of surface reflectance and aerosol opacity using the second Along-Track Scanning Radiometer (ATSR-2)

Author

North, P.R. ; Briggs, S.A. ; Plummer, S.E. ; Wilson, A.K. ; Godsalve, C. ; Settle, J.J. ; Singh, S.M.

Author_Institution

Remote Sensing Appl. Dev. Unit, British National Space Centre, Monks Wood, UK

Volume

1

fYear

34881

fDate

10-14 Jul1995

Firstpage

276

Abstract

This paper presents a method for retrieval of aerosol opacity and land surface bi-directional reflectance using data from the second Along-Track Scanning Radiometer (ATSR-2). The method is based on inversion of a physically based model of land surface reflectance to provide a constraint on the spectral variation of reflectance. Validation is performed for a range of cover types

Keywords

aerosols; atmospheric optics; atmospheric techniques; geophysical techniques; infrared imaging; meteorology; radiometry; remote sensing; ATSR; ATSR-2; Along-Track Scanning Radiometer; IR imaging; aerosol opacity; atmosphere; bi-directional reflectance; geophysical measurement technique; infrared imaging; inversion; land surface; light scattering; optical imaging; optics; physically based model; retrieval method; satellite remote sensing; spectral variation; surface reflectance; terrain mapping; troposphere; Aerosols; Atmospheric measurements; Atmospheric modeling; Atmospheric waves; Land surface; Ocean temperature; Optical surface waves; Radiometry; Reflectivity; Sea surface;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 1995. IGARSS '95. 'Quantitative Remote Sensing for Science and Applications', International

Conference_Location

Firenze

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2567-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.1995.520258

Filename

520258