Applications of Satellite Data for Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) Retrievals and Validation with AERONET Data英文文献资料.docVIP

Atmospheric and Climate Sciences, 2011, 1, 61-67 doi: 10.4236/acs.2011.12007 Published Online April 2011 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/acs) Applications of Satellite Data for Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) Retrievals and Validation with AERONET Data Sunil Bhaskaran , Neal Phillip , Atiqur Rahman , Javed Mallick 1 1 2 2 1 Department of Chemistry and Chemical Technology, Bronx Community College, York College and Earth and Environmental Studies, Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA 2 Urban Environmental Management and Remote Sensing GIS Division, Department of Geography, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, INDIA E-mail: Sbhaskaran@ Received February 16, 2011; revised March 8, 2011; accepted March 15, 2011 Abstract An understanding of the amount and type of aerosols present in the atmosphere is required for the atmos- pheric correction of satellite imagery. A sensitivity analysis of the atmospheric inputs to the MOD09 soft- ware has shown that uncertainty in the estimation of Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) has the greatest impact on the accuracy of atmospheric correction of MODIS data. The MOD09 software used for the generation of surface reflectance products estimates the AOD of the atmosphere at the time of image acquisition. AOD measurements retrieved from MODIS were compared with near-simultaneous AErosol RObotic NETwork (AERONET) data over three sites in Australia, using time-series of MODIS surface reflectance products. The results of the study provide an important independent validation of ACRES MODIS Surface Reflectance Products. This procedure may be applied to long time series MODIS data for estimating the accuracy of MOD09 retrieved AOD. Keywords: Aerosol Optical Depth, MODIS Data, Urban Area 1. Introduction mospheric pollutant input into the atmosphere from hu- man activity, aerosols are n