Polarimetric remote sensing of atmospheric aerosols: Instruments, methodologies, results, and perspectives

O Dubovik, Z Li, MI Mishchenko, D Tanré… - Journal of Quantitative …, 2019 - Elsevier
Polarimetry is one of the most promising types of remote sensing for improved
characterization of atmospheric aerosol. Indeed, aerosol particles constitute a highly …

Satellite remote sensing of aerosol optical depth: Advances, challenges, and perspectives

X Wei, NB Chang, K Bai, W Gao - Critical Reviews in …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Aerosol optical depth (AOD) is widely recognized as a critical indicator in understanding
atmospheric physics and regional air quality because of its capability for quantifying aerosol …

Directional Polarimetric Camera (DPC): Monitoring aerosol spectral optical properties over land from satellite observation

Z Li, W Hou, J Hong, F Zheng, D Luo, J Wang… - Journal of Quantitative …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract The Directional Polarimetric Camera (DPC) is the first Chinese multi-angle
polarized earth observation satellite sensor, which will be launched onboard the GaoFen-5 …

Joint retrieval of the aerosol fine mode fraction and optical depth using MODIS spectral reflectance over northern and eastern China: Artificial neural network method

X Chen, G de Leeuw, A Arola, S Liu, Y Liu, Z Li… - Remote Sensing of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The Fine Mode Fraction (FMF) of atmospheric aerosol is very important for
environment and climate studies. Attempts have been made to retrieve the FMF from satellite …

General review of optical polarization remote sensing

L Yan, Y Li, V Chandrasekar, H Mortimer… - … Journal of Remote …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Polarization remote sensing can be used to obtain polarization data for a given target. It can
be acquire not only radiation data, as also measured by conventional remote sensing, but …

Validation of POLDER GRASP aerosol optical retrieval over China using SONET observations

Y Wei, Z Li, Y Zhang, C Chen, O Dubovik… - Journal of Quantitative …, 2020 - Elsevier
Monitoring fine mode aerosol pollutants is one of priorities in national environmental
programs. Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) and fine mode AOD are key parameters for …

Improving Remote Sensing of Aerosol Microphysical Properties by Near‐Infrared Polarimetric Measurements Over Vegetated Land: Information Content Analysis

W Hou, Z Li, J Wang, X Xu, P Goloub… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
While polarimetric measurements contain valuable information regarding aerosol
microphysical properties, polarization data in the near‐infrared (NIR) bands have not been …

A global land aerosol fine-mode fraction dataset (2001–2020) retrieved from MODIS using hybrid physical and deep learning approaches

X Yan, Z Zang, Z Li, N Luo, C Zuo… - Earth System …, 2021 - essd.copernicus.org
The aerosol fine-mode fraction (FMF) is potentially valuable for discriminating natural
aerosols from anthropogenic ones. However, most current satellite-based FMF products are …

An improved algorithm for retrieving high resolution fine-mode aerosol based on polarized satellite data: Application and validation for POLDER-3

B Ge, X Mei, Z Li, W Hou, Y Xie, Y Zhang, H Xu… - Remote Sensing of …, 2020 - Elsevier
The fine-mode aerosols (FMA), generally generated from anthropogenic sources, play an
essential role in global radiation balance, climate change, atmospheric environment, and …

An algorithm for hyperspectral remote sensing of aerosols: 2. Information content analysis for aerosol parameters and principal components of surface spectra

W Hou, J Wang, X Xu, JS Reid - Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and …, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper describes the second part of a series of investigation to develop algorithms for
simultaneous retrieval of aerosol parameters and surface reflectance from the future …