A Spatial Prescreening Technique for Earth Observation Data

Author

Hua, Xin-Min ; Pan, Jianfu ; Ouzounov, Dimitar ; Lyapustin, Alexei ; Wang, Yujie ; Tewari, Krishna ; Leptoukh, Gregory ; Vollmer, Bruce

Author_Institution

L-3 Commun., GSI, Chantilly, VA

Volume

4

Issue

1

fYear

2007

Firstpage

152

Lastpage

156

Abstract

We introduce a precise, efficient, and flexible spatial prescreening technique developed to support Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) data subsetting in response to the requests of Aerosol Robotic Network researchers. The technique is capable of handling all MODIS data granules uniformly regardless of their locations on the Earth, with no special treatment required for dateline and pole crossing regions. It is easily adaptable to other problems where spatial prescreening is desired

Keywords

aerosols; atmospheric techniques; remote sensing; Aerosol Robotic Network; EOS; Earth Observing System; Earth observation data; MODIS; Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer; dateline region; pole crossing region; spatial prescreening technique; Aerosols; Atmospheric measurements; Earth; Instruments; MODIS; NASA; Oceans; Robots; Satellites; Sea measurements; Aerosols; algorithms; data processing; image processing; meteorology; prescreening; remote sensing; satellite applications; spatial subsetting; spherical geometry; terrestrial atmosphere;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1545-598X

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LGRS.2006.886421

Filename

4063294