Technical material

Technical manuals and data sources

Technical manuals

Menzel, WP 2006, 'Remote sensing applications with meteorological satellites', NOAA Satellite and Information Service, University of Wisconsin. http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/

NASA MODIS Atmosphere – product descriptions, Algorithm Theoretical Basis Documents, journal articles, presentations - http://modis-atmos.gsfc.nasa.gov/index.html

Tanre, D, Artaxo, P, Yuter, S & Kaufman, Y 2009, 'In Situ and Remote Sensing Techniques for Measuring Aerosols, Clouds and Precipitation', in Z Levin & WR Cotton (eds), Aerosol Pollution Impact on Precipitation, Springer, pp. 143-203.

Kokhanovsky, AA & Leeuw, Gd 2009, Satellite Aerosol Remote Sensing Over Land, Springer.

Carleton, AM 1991, Satellite Remote Sensing in Climatology, Studies in Climatology Series, Belhaven Press, London.

Data acquisition

The following is a brief list of data providers that the project team have acquired image data from for working in terrestrial and coastal environments. It is not exhaustive. Users are referred to The Dec 2005 / Jan 2006 Edition of “Position”, the journal of the Australian Spatial Sciences Institute for its listing of image data providers (http://positionmag.com.au/POS/pos_frame.html).

NASA – Near Real Time MODIS rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov
NASA - Land Processes Distributed Archive edcdaac.usgs.gov/main.asp
NASA - EOSDIS esdis.eosdis.nasa.gov/eosdis/overview.html
Earth Science Data Interface glcfapp.umiacs.umd.edu:8080/esdi/index.jsp
Shuttle Radar Topography Mission www2.jpl.nasa.gov/srtm/

Time series image analysis

Time series image analysis (atmospheric) disc.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/giovanni