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Field Measurements for Passive Environmental Remote Sensing

Instrumentation, Intensive Campaigns, and Satellite Applications

  • 1st Edition - September 27, 2022
  • Latest edition
  • Editor: Nicholas R. Nalli
  • Language: English

Field Measurements for Environmental Remote Sensing: Instrumentation, Intensive Campaigns, and Satellite Applications is an academic synthesis of invaluable in situ measur… Read more

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Description

Field Measurements for Environmental Remote Sensing: Instrumentation, Intensive Campaigns, and Satellite Applications is an academic synthesis of invaluable in situ measurements and techniques leveraged by the science of environmental remote sensing. Sections cover in situ datasets and observing methods used for satellite remote sending applications and validation, synthesizing the various techniques utilized by well-established application areas under a common paradigm. The book serves as both a textbook for students (upper-level undergraduate to graduate level) and a reference book for practitioners and researchers in the atmospheric, oceanic and remote sensing fields.

Key features

  • Presents chapters organized according to subdiscipline, with each written by established experts in their relevant field
  • Includes literature reviews, case studies and applications for each subdivision
  • Features a synthesis of the suite of invaluable in situ measurements and techniques leveraged by the science of environmental remote sensing

Readership

Scientists at government agencies and labs (e.g., NOAA, NASA, NRL, EUMETSAT, JAXA, IMD, etc.), as well as professors/teachers at universities with departments in atmospheric, oceanic and remote sensing sciences. Environmental measurement scientists, engineers, technicians, or vendors who develop and characterize the vast array of instrumentation used for remote sensing applications discussed within

Table of contents

1. Introduction: Field Measurements and Remote Sensing

Part I: Instrumentation

2. Balloon-Borne Radiosondes

3. Frost Point Hygrometers

4. Ozonesondes

5. Oceanographic buoys: providing ocean data to assess the accuracy of variables derived from satellite measurements

6. Surface-Based Thermal Infrared Spectrometers

7. Sun photometers

8. AirCore

Part II: Intensive Campaigns

9. High-Altitude Aircraft Radiometric Calibration-Validation Campaigns

10. Aircraft Dropsonde Campaigns

11. Ship-Based Cal/Val Campaigns

12. Land-Based Cal/Val Campaigns

13. Aircraft Vertical Profile Measurements for Evaluation of Satellite Retrievals of Long-Lived Trace Gases

14. Campaign Situational Awareness from Satellite Data

Part III: Satellite Applications

15. On-Orbit VIIRS Sensor Calibration and Validation in Reflective Solar Bands (RSB)

16. NOAA Products Validation System (NPROVS)

17. Satellite Microwave Sounder Product Retrieval Validation

18. Considerations for Satellite Infrared Sounder Applications

19. Sea Surface Temperature Validation and Blended Analysis

20. Satellite Ocean Color Validation

21. Land Surface Temperature Validation

22. Heterogeneity of Smoke from Fires: Evaluation of VIIRS Smoke Detection Using FIREX-AQ Field Campaign Data

23. Downburst Monitoring and Prediction Studies

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: September 28, 2022
  • Language: English

About the editor

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Nicholas R. Nalli

Dr. Nicholas Nalli received his B.S and M.S. degrees in Education from the State University of New York, College at Oneonta, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He was awarded a four-year Postdoctoral Fellowship with the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA), Colorado State University, which he completed onsite at NOAA/NESDIS/STAR as a Visiting Scientist. Dr. Nalli is currently a Senior Research Scientist (onsite contractor) at STAR, where he performs applied and basic research. His primary research specialty is in environmental satellite remote sensing, radiative transfer and validation, with a focus on oceanic and atmospheric applications. Other research interests include atmospheric aerosols, air-sea interactions, boundary layer and marine meteorology, oceanographic intensive field campaigns, forensic science, and global climate change applications. He is also interested and active in science education and public outreach.
Affiliations and expertise
Senior Research Scientist (onsite contractor), STAR, USA

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