• Laser & Optoelectronics Progress
  • Vol. 57, Issue 3, 030101 (2020)
Jianan Gao1, Liping Li1、*, Tingwei Cui2, and Chen Chen1
Author Affiliations
  • 1College of Information Science and Engineering, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, Shandong 266100, China
  • 2The First Institute of Oceanography, State Oceanic Administration, Qingdao, Shandong 266061, China
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    DOI: 10.3788/LOP57.030101 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Jianan Gao, Liping Li, Tingwei Cui, Chen Chen. Retrieval of Fine Mode Aerosol Optical Depth Based on Satellite Polarization Remote Sensing[J]. Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, 2020, 57(3): 030101 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    Fine mode aerosol optical depth in Xianghe was calculated, using data from the onboard multi-angle polarization sensor POLDER-3 in the PARASOL satellite. The retrieval results were compared with the operational products of POLDER, MODIS, and AERONET data. The results show that the accuracy of POLDER using polarization remote sensing is significantly better than that of unpolarized MODIS. The correlation coefficient is increased from 0.67 to 0.93, and the average error is reduced from 0.32 to 0.15. As combined with the neural network (NN) method, the method gave correlation coefficient of 0.94 and standard deviation of only 0.11. Then, NN was applied to Hangzhou and Hong Kong, respectively. The verification results show that it has similar accuracy in Hangzhou but poor applicability in Hong Kong. The research shows it is feasible to use the NN to extract fine mode aerosol information from polarized signals.
    Jianan Gao, Liping Li, Tingwei Cui, Chen Chen. Retrieval of Fine Mode Aerosol Optical Depth Based on Satellite Polarization Remote Sensing[J]. Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, 2020, 57(3): 030101
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