Spatial variability of the atmosphere over southern England: magnitude and impact on remote sensing

This was presented at the RSPSoc 2012 conference in Greenwich, London. See http://www.rtwilson.com/academic/publications for the associated paper.

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1. RSPSoc Conference 2012 - Greenwich, London! Spatial variability of the atmosphere over
2. UK-DMC2 image
3. The problem
4. The status quo
5. Do you really think the atmosphere is uniform across this image?
6. Aims & Questions
7. What atmospheric properties matter?
8. Data sources
9. AERONET
10. ✤  Merged data from MERIS, ATSR-2, AATSR and SEVIRI! ✤  10km resolution! ✤  Standard MODIS product (M?D04)! ✤  Used Collection 005 data – significantly higher quality than previous data! ✤  10km resolution! GlobAerosol
11. Variability results
12. So…
13. Radiative Transfer Modelling
14. Radiative Transfer Modelling
15. Radiative Transfer Modelling
16. 6S
17. Py6S
18. RTM – Output products
19. NDVI results
20. NPP results
21. Sensitivity analysis
22. Conclusions
23. Conclusions