Who should use this toolkit?

This guide should be used by anyone contemplating, how to use remote sensing for a atmospheric science or management question, or to understand a map of atmospheric properties or processes derived from remote sensing.

The toolkit first explains how remote sensing works and what its limitations are in atmospheric environments, leading to a detailed assessment of which atmospheric parameters can be mapped and monitored from commercially available remotely sensed data.

The toolkit then provides a selection of worked examples and industry contacts for the procedures necessary to map atmospheric parameters from remote sensing. The following listing presents examples of typical users:

• Atmospheric managers/policy makers - Can I use remotely sensed data (or a product derived from this) to map and monitor an atmospheric parameter in the environment I am responsible for?
• Atmospheric scientists/technicians - atmospheric parameters can I accurately map and monitor using commercially available remote sensing data and what are the basic resources, personnel and time required to do this?
• Spatial information professionals - How can I use remote sensing to accurately map and monitor in my atmospheric environment using commercially available remote sensing data and what are the basic resources, personnel and time required to do this?
• Students - How can remotely sensed data be used to map and monitor atmospheric?
• General public - What type of information can be accurately mapped and monitored from remotely sensed data of atmospheric zones?