Eric Vermote

TL;DR: Remote sensing of aerosol optical thickness from space is difficult over continental surfaces and there are two retrieval algorithms, one based on the use of dark targets and a second based on contrast reduction between selected pixels.

TL;DR: In this Letter, errors in Supplementary Table 1 have been corrected and apologies are made for any confusion.

TL;DR: The potential and limitations of using medium- spatial scale multispectral data, such as Landsat, to understand important factors that control suspended sediment transport processes within an estuary are demonstrated.

TL;DR: A new processing chain was developed at the University of Maryland and NASA-GSFC for an improved AVHRR Land Pathfinder II (ALP II) data set as discussed by the authors, which has shown a greater accuracy in atmospheric correction and temporal profiles for ALP II data set than the other AVHR data sets.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reviewed the different atmospheric contributors to the signal, the formulation of their effect and their relative effects on the measured signal, and the functionality, precision and accuracy of a widely-used radiation transfer code, 5S (simulation of satellite signal in the solar spectrum), and its recent successor, 6S (second simulation of Satellite Signal in the Solar Spectrum), which enables accurate simulation and correction for atmospheric effects, are examined.