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 …

Research scanning polarimeter and airborne usage for remote sensing of aerosols

B Cairns, EE Russell, JD LaVeigne… - … science and remote …, 2003 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Accurate multi-spectral, multi-angle polarimetric measurements are a key remote sensing
tool for the determination of the burden and microphysical properties of atmospheric …

Improvements for ground-based remote sensing of atmospheric aerosol properties by additional polarimetric measurements

Z Li, P Goloub, O Dubovik, L Blarel, W Zhang… - Journal of Quantitative …, 2009 - Elsevier
We discuss the improvements in the aerosol properties characterization resulting from the
additional multi-wavelength polarization measurements measured by a new CIMEL …

[HTML][HTML] Retrieving aerosol characteristics from the PACE mission, Part 2: multi-angle and polarimetry

LA Remer, K Knobelspiesse, PW Zhai, F Xu… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The Plankton, Aerosol, Clouds, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission presents new
opportunities and new challenges in applying observations of two complementary multi …

Validation of GRASP algorithm product from POLDER/PARASOL data and assessment of multi-angular polarimetry potential for aerosol monitoring

C Chen, O Dubovik, D Fuertes… - Earth System …, 2020 - essd.copernicus.org
Proven by multiple theoretical and practical studies, multi-angular spectral polarimetry is
ideal for comprehensive retrieval of properties of aerosols. Furthermore, a large number of …

Space-based remote sensing of atmospheric aerosols: The multi-angle spectro-polarimetric frontier

AA Kokhanovsky, AB Davis, B Cairns, O Dubovik… - Earth-Science …, 2015 - Elsevier
The review of optical instrumentation, forward modeling, and inverse problem solution for
the polarimetric aerosol remote sensing from space is presented. The special emphasis is …

Research scanning polarimeter: calibration and ground-based measurements

B Cairns, EE Russell, LD Travis - … : measurement, analysis, and …, 1999 - spiedigitallibrary.org
SpecTIR Corporation has recently completed building the Research Scanning Polarimeter
(RSP). This instrument was designed to provide highly accurate polarimetric measurement …

Polarimetric remote sensing of aerosols over land

F Waquet, B Cairns, K Knobelspiesse… - Journal of …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
We present a new approach to retrieve the aerosol properties over land that uses accurate
polarization measurements over a broad spectral (410–2250 nm) and angular (±60° from …

Aerosol retrieval from multiangle, multispectral photopolarimetric measurements: importance of spectral range and angular resolution

L Wu, O Hasekamp… - Atmospheric …, 2015 - amt.copernicus.org
We investigated the importance of spectral range and angular resolution for aerosol retrieval
from multiangle photopolarimetric measurements over land. For this purpose, we use an …

The Airborne Multiangle SpectroPolarimetric Imager (AirMSPI): a new tool for aerosol and cloud remote sensing

DJ Diner, F Xu, MJ Garay, JV Martonchik… - Atmospheric …, 2013 - amt.copernicus.org
The Airborne Multiangle SpectroPolarimetric Imager (AirMSPI) is an eight-band (355, 380,
445, 470, 555, 660, 865, 935 nm) pushbroom camera, measuring polarization in the 470 …