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- Page 5 and 6: TABLE OF CONTENTS Page LIST OF TABL
- Page 7 and 8: LIST OF TABLES Table Page Table 1.1
- Page 9 and 10: Figure 6.2 The UVAI images and the
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- Page 17 and 18: 1.3 Objectives and Scopes The main
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- Page 21 and 22: 1.6 Principal Results The principle
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- Page 55: 3.4.2 California 2007 fire The 2007
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- Page 70 and 71: 4.3 Results Three dust events occur
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Altitude (km) 20 15 10 5 UTC: 2006-
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After spatial registration, the ove
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Figure 5.4(a) The MODIS true color
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Altitude (km) BTD (K) 20 15 10 15 4
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in the same A-train orbit with simi
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Aqua spacecrafts are operated in th
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the Fig. 6.1a. For easy comparison,
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esolutions, the number of smoke pix
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6.1.4 Validation of dust monitoring
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Figure 6.3 Validation of dust image
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eflectance in red band. Therefore,
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Altitude (km) 20 15 10 5 UTC: 2006-
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image at the same location. The rea
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accuracy could be increased further
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FPAs and cold FPAs (because of diff
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development of future remote sensin
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Figure 7.3: SRCA spatial mode retic
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7.1.3.2 Date Source MODIS L1B data
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characterization. Only the measurem
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these bands, including reflective s
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different spectral bands are slight
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SZA (Degree) SZA (Degree) 65 60 55
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7.2.1.2 Real Impact on L1B Measurem
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7.2.2.1 Theoretical impact analysis
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spatial characterization, the bigge
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Difference NDDI with spatial correc
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8.1 Conclusions CHAPTER 8 CONCLUSIO
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Based on the detection results, the
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3) Validating aerosol detection qua
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REFERENCES Ackerman, S. A., 1989, U
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imagery, Atmospheric Environment, v
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Salomonson, V. V., Privette, J. L.,
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Martinez, A., and Gros, G., 2007-10
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Wang W., Qu, J. J., Liu, Y., Hao, X
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CURRICULUM VITAE Yong Xie is a Ph.D