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1.3 Objectives and Scopes
The main objectives of this dissertation are seeking to develop an approach for
detecting smoke and dust aerosols at given areas (smoke plumes in USA and dust storms
in Asia) based on the spectral and statistical analyses. The specific objectives are listed as
follows:
1) To develop an approach based on multi-spectral technique for detecting smoke
and dust aerosols combining measurements of both MODIS RSBs and TEBs.
2) To detect dust storm using multi-sensor measurements.
3) To assess the potential impact of MODIS spatial characterization change on the
L1B measurement and smoke/dust detection results.
1.4 Organization of Dissertation
This dissertation consists of eight chapters. In order to better understand the study,
the background and literature review are given in the first two chapters. The next five
chapters present various works related to objectives of the dissertation. The summary and
discussion of future directions are summarized in last chapter.
Chapter 1 gives the general introduction, including the importance of detecting
smoke and dust aerosols, problems of detection approaches, research objectives, major
data sources and principle results of the dissertation.
Chapter 2 reviews the approaches of smoke and dust detection used in past and
present, as well as advantages and limitations of each approach.
In Chapter 3, the spectral analysis on the basis of hyper-spectral measurements and
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