Development of data processing, interpretation and analysis system for the remote sensing of trace atmospheric gas species
Abstract
The major emphasis is on the advancement of remote sensing technology. In particular, the gas filter correlation radiometer (GFCR) technique was applied to the measurement of trace gas species, such as carbon monoxide (CO), from airborne and Earth orbiting platforms. Through a series of low altitude aircraft flights, high altitude aircraft flights, and orbiting space platform flights, data were collected and analyzed, culminating in the first global map of carbon monoxide concentration in the middle troposphere and stratosphere. The four major areas of this remote sensing program, known as the Measurement of Air Pollution from Satellites (MAPS) experiment, are: (1) data acquisition, (2) data processing, analysis, and interpretation algorithms, (3) data display techniques, and (4) information processing.
- Publication:
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Final Report
- Pub Date:
- April 1987
- Bibcode:
- 1987odu..rept.....C
- Keywords:
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- Atmospheric Composition;
- Data Acquisition;
- Data Processing;
- Gas Composition;
- Remote Sensing;
- Trace Contaminants;
- Air Pollution;
- Algorithms;
- Carbon Monoxide;
- Earth Observations (From Space);
- Stratosphere;
- Troposphere;
- Geophysics