Air pollution monitoring through the application of atmospheric correction for ASTER imagery

Kyriacos Themistocleous; Hadjimitsis G. Diofantos

doi:10.1117/12.830581

7 October 2009 Air pollution monitoring through the application of atmospheric correction for ASTER imagery

Kyriacos Themistocleous, Hadjimitsis G. Diofantos

Proceedings Volume 7478, Remote Sensing for Environmental Monitoring, GIS Applications, and Geology IX; 74780T (2009) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.830581
Event: SPIE Remote Sensing, 2009, Berlin, Germany

Abstract

This paper presents the results obtained through the application of atmospheric correction on ASTER images for deriving the aerosol optical thickness (AOT). The literature shows that there is a gap in correlating the determined or measured AOT through the visible and near-infrared spectrum with the air-pollutants such as PM₁₀, PM_2.5, CO₂, etc. This research investigates such aspects by acquiring sun-photometer measurements, image data, and air-pollutants measurements during the satellite overpass of the urban areas in Paphos and Limassol District in Cyprus. AOT values delivered from MODIS satellite images are regressed against the sun-photometer ground-based measurements. The determined AOT values from both sources are compared with the AOT values retrieved from ASTER and/or LANDSAT TM /ETM+ images. Preliminary results show that the AOT retrieved after applying an atmospheric correction from the images was very near to those found from the sun-photometers acquired simultaneous during the satellite overpass.

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Kyriacos Themistocleous and Hadjimitsis G. Diofantos "Air pollution monitoring through the application of atmospheric correction for ASTER imagery", Proc. SPIE 7478, Remote Sensing for Environmental Monitoring, GIS Applications, and Geology IX, 74780T (7 October 2009); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.830581

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