Techniques of global validation of aerosol retrievals from MODIS

Author

Ichoku, Charles ; Chu, D. Allen ; Mattoo, Shana ; Kaufman, Yoram J. ; Remer, Lorraine A. ; Tanré, Didier ; Slutsker, Ilya ; Holben, Brent N.

Author_Institution

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA

Volume

3

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

1203

Abstract

Aerosol optical thickness (AOT) and size parameters are among the main atmospheric parameters retrieved from the MODIS instrument on board the Terra satellite. We have embarked on a massive effort to validate these aerosol products globally, by cross correlating MODIS spatial statistics with ground-based AERONET temporal statistics. This has produced good validation in various parts of the Earth both over land and over oceans. The validation statistical data are generated daily and are available to the science community for short and long term studies in various parts of the earth for the lifetime of MODIS

Keywords

aerosols; atmospheric optics; atmospheric techniques; remote sensing; MODIS; Terra satellite; aerosol optical thickness; aerosol retrievals; atmospheric parameters; global validation; ground-based AERONET temporal statistics; size parameters; spatial statistics; Aerosols; Clouds; Information retrieval; Laboratories; MODIS; NASA; Oceans; Satellites; Spatial resolution; Statistics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2001. IGARSS '01. IEEE 2001 International

Conference_Location

Sydney, NSW

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7031-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2001.976792

Filename

976792