Detection of Saharan dust by spatial/spectral signatures in VIS-TIR satellite radiances

Author

Tramutoli, Valerio ; Filizzola, Carolina ; Paciello, Rossana ; Pergola, Nicola ; Pietrapertosa, Carla ; Mazzeo, Giuseppe

Author_Institution

Dept. of Eng. & Phys. of the Environ., Univ. of Basilicata, Potenza, Italy

Volume

4

fYear

2009

fDate

12-17 July 2009

Abstract

This paper will face the problem of detecting dust clouds, discriminating them from meteorological clouds, by using multispectral radiances measured from satellite sensors. The possibility to overcome problems related to their very similar spectral signatures by combining an advanced multi-temporal satellite data analysis approach with a peculiar spatial/signature, will be described using as study case a dust-storm event occurred in North Africa in 1997.

Keywords

dust; remote sensing; storms; AD 1997; North Africa; Saharan dust detection; VIS-TIR satellite radiances; advanced multi-temporal satellite data analysis; dust cloud detection problem; dust-storm; meteorological clouds; satellite sensors; spatial-spectral signatures; Aerosols; Africa; Clouds; Data analysis; Face detection; Meteorology; Ocean temperature; Optical attenuators; Satellites; Sea surface; AVHRR; RST; Saharan dust; VIS- TIR; satellite;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium,2009 IEEE International,IGARSS 2009

Conference_Location

Cape Town

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3394-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-3395-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2009.5417523

Filename

5417523