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CHAPTER 4<br />

DUST AEROSOL MONITORING WITH MODIS MEASUREMENTS<br />

Asian dust storm, originates in Mongolia <strong>and</strong> northern China <strong>and</strong> Kazakhstan, is a<br />

seasonal meteorological phenomenon. Every year, thous<strong>and</strong>s <strong>of</strong> tons <strong>of</strong> dust are<br />

transported by the prevailing winds in springtime into eastern China, North <strong>and</strong> South<br />

Korea, <strong>and</strong> Japan, <strong>and</strong> Pacific Ocean. Sometime, these airborne dust particulates<br />

impacted the air quality as far as the North American. The severe dust storms transported<br />

by wind great impact the financial trade, industrial production, transportation, daily<br />

activity, <strong>and</strong> endanger human’s life. <strong>Detection</strong> dust storm in a timely manner can give<br />

alarm to people to take measures to avoid economic even vital loss. The detecting results<br />

are also very useful for the atmospheric modeling <strong>and</strong> simulation. An algorithm based on<br />

multi-spectral technique is developed combining measurements <strong>of</strong> six MODIS RSBs <strong>and</strong><br />

TEBs. Similar to the development <strong>of</strong> smoke detection algorithm, the b<strong>and</strong>s are selected<br />

according to the spectral analysis <strong>and</strong> the thresholds <strong>of</strong> each test are decided with the<br />

statistical analysis. Several dust storm events are selected as example cases to test the<br />

algorithm. The results are validated with MODIS true color images in this chapter <strong>and</strong><br />

validated quantitatively with multi-<strong>sensor</strong> measurements in chapter six.<br />

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