Aerosol Remote Sensing

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Lenoble, Jacqueline (Editor), Remer, Lorraine (Editor), Tanre, Didier (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Subjects: Geography.; Remote sensing.; Geophysics.; Climate change.; Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry.; Geophysics and Environmental Physics.; Climate Change.

This book gives a much needed explanation of the basic physical principles of radiative transfer and remote sensing, and presents all the instruments and retrieval algorithms in a homogenous manner. The editors provide, for the first time, an easy path from theory to practical algorithms in one easi...

Table of Contents:

• Absorption and Scattering by Molecules and Aerosols
• Radiative Transfer in the Earth's Atmosphere
• Direct Observation of the Sun
• Observation of the Difuse Solar Radiation and the Influence of Aerosols: Determination of Aerosol Optical Properties from Direct and Inverse Methods
• Passive Shortwave Remote Sensing from the Ground
• Shortwave Remote Sensing from Space
• Major Recent or Present Instruments for Shortwave Remote Sensing
• Longwave Passive Remote Sensing
• Active Lidar Remote Sensing
• Results
• The Present Situation
• Plans for Future Research.