Remote Sensing of Aerosol Over Vegetation Cover Based on Pixel Level Multi-Wavelength Polarized Measurements
Often the aerosol contribution is small compared to the surface covered vegetation. while, atmospheric scattering is much more polarized than the surface reflection. In essence, the polarized light is much more sensitive to atmospheric scattering than to reflection by vegetative cover surface. Using...
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| Format: | Book Chapter |
| Language: | English |
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IntechOpen
2010
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| Online Access: | https://www.intechopen.com/chapters/10394 |
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| Summary: | Often the aerosol contribution is small compared to the surface covered vegetation. while, atmospheric scattering is much more polarized than the surface reflection. In essence, the polarized light is much more sensitive to atmospheric scattering than to reflection by vegetative cover surface. Using polarized information could solve the inverse problem of separating the surface and atmospheric scattering contributions. This paper presents retrieval of aerosols properties from multi-wavelength polarized measurements. The results suggest that it is feasible and possibility for discriminating the aerosol contribution from the surface in the aerosol retrieval procedure using multidirectional and multi-wavelength polarization measurements. Keywords: Aerosol, remote sensing, polarized measurements, short wave infrared |
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| ISBN: | 978-953-7619-97-8 |
| DOI: | 10.5772/9103 |