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 …

[HTML][HTML] Going beyond standard ocean color observations: lidar and polarimetry

C Jamet, A Ibrahim, Z Ahmad, F Angelini… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Passive ocean color images have provided a sustained synoptic view of the distribution of
ocean optical properties and color and biogeochemical parameters for the past 20-plus …

[HTML][HTML] Aerosol measurements by SPEXone on the NASA PACE mission: expected retrieval capabilities

OP Hasekamp, G Fu, SP Rusli, L Wu, A Di Noia… - Journal of Quantitative …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract SPEXone is a Multi-Angle Polarimeter instrument that is baselined to fly on the
NASA Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, and ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission, to be launched in …

Intercomparison of biomass burning aerosol optical properties from in situ and remote-sensing instruments in ORACLES-2016

K Pistone, J Redemann, S Doherty… - Atmospheric …, 2019 - acp.copernicus.org
The total effect of aerosols, both directly and on cloud properties, remains the biggest source
of uncertainty in anthropogenic radiative forcing on the climate. Correct characterization of …

[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 …

[HTML][HTML] Modeling atmosphere-ocean radiative transfer: A PACE mission perspective

J Chowdhary, PW Zhai, E Boss, H Dierssen… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The research frontiers of radiative transfer (RT) in coupled atmosphere-ocean systems are
explored to enable new science and specifically to support the upcoming Plankton, Aerosol …

SPEX airborne spectropolarimeter calibration and performance

JM Smit, JHH Rietjens, G van Harten, A Di Noia… - Applied …, 2019 - opg.optica.org
To improve our understanding of the complex role of aerosols in the climate system and on
air quality, measurements are needed of optical and microphysical aerosol. From many …

Angle of linear polarization images of outdoor scenes

M Kupinski, C Bradley, D Diner, F Xu… - Optical …, 2019 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Observations from the Ground-based Multiangle SpectroPolarimetric Imager (GroundMSPI)
are used to relate angle of linear polarization (AoLP) measurements to material properties …

Intercomparison of airborne multi-angle polarimeter observations from the Polarimeter Definition Experiment

K Knobelspiesse, Q Tan, C Bruegge, B Cairns… - Applied …, 2019 - opg.optica.org
In early 2013, three airborne polarimeters were flown on the high altitude NASA ER-2
aircraft in California for the Polarimeter Definition Experiment (PODEX). PODEX supported …

Optical properties of reflected light from leaves: A case study from one species

Z Sun, D Wu, Y Lv, S Lu - IEEE Transactions on Geoscience …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The reflection property of targets is the fundamental signal for applications of optical remote
sensing of the earth's surface. In this paper, we measured the photometric and polarimetric …