Retrieval of aerosol optical thickness from PROBA-CHRIS images acquired over a coniferous forest

Carmine Maffei; Antonio P. Leone; Massimo Menenti; Ivan Pippi; Fabio Maselli; Paolo Antonelli

doi:10.1117/12.627661

18 October 2005 Retrieval of aerosol optical thickness from PROBA-CHRIS images acquired over a coniferous forest

Carmine Maffei, Antonio P. Leone, Massimo Menenti, Ivan Pippi, Fabio Maselli, Paolo Antonelli

Proceedings Volume 5976, Remote Sensing for Agriculture, Ecosystems, and Hydrology VII; 59760J (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.627661
Event: SPIE Remote Sensing, 2005, Bruges, Belgium

Abstract

In the present work we show the potential of multiangular hyperspectral PROBA-CHRIS data to estimate aerosol optical properties over dense dark vegetation. Data acquired over San Rossore test site (Pisa, Italy) have been used together with simultaneous ground measurements. Additionally, spectral measurement over the canopy have been performed to describe the directional behavior of a Pinus pinaster canopy. Determination of aerosol properties from optical remote sensing images over land is an under-determined problem, and some assumptions have to be made on both the aerosol and the surface being imaged. Radiance measured on multiple directions add extra information that help in reducing retrieval ambiguity. Nevertheless, multiangular observations don't allow to ignore directional spectral properties of vegetation canopies. Since surface reflectivity is the parameter we wish to determine with remote sensing after atmospheric correction, at least the shape of the bi-directional reflectance factor has to be assumed. We have adopted a Rahman BRF, and have estimated its geometrical parameters from ground spectral measurements. The inversion of measured radiance to obtain aerosol optical properties has been performed, allowing simultaneous retrieval of aerosol model and optical thickness together with the vegetation reflectivity parameter of the Rahman model.

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Carmine Maffei, Antonio P. Leone, Massimo Menenti, Ivan Pippi, Fabio Maselli, and Paolo Antonelli "Retrieval of aerosol optical thickness from PROBA-CHRIS images acquired over a coniferous forest", Proc. SPIE 5976, Remote Sensing for Agriculture, Ecosystems, and Hydrology VII, 59760J (18 October 2005); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.627661

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Aerosols

Reflectivity

Atmospheric modeling

Atmospheric particles

Vegetation

Ozone

Scattering

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