C240B/C160. Remote Sensing. (4) Lecture, three hours. Concurrently.
Requisites: courses C203C/C160, C240A.

Theory and techniques of remote sensing; atmospheric spectroscopy; methods based on scattering, absorption, and extinction; passive and active techniques; inversion methods; remote sensing of terrestrial meteorological parameters and trace constituents; remote sensing of surfaces and biosphere; remote sensing of planetary atmospheres.

Letter grades for majors with consent of instructor. (Numbered exercies and a term paper.)

OUTLINE: (The course reader is available in the front office)

7.1 INTRODUCTION: The meaning of remote sensing, uniqueness, active and passive, key milestones of atmospheric sounding from satellites

7.2.1 Determination of Aerosol Optical Depth and Size Distribution

7.2.1.1 Direct linear inversion
7.2.1.2 Constrained linear inversion

7.2.2 Determination of Total Ozone Concentration
7.2.3 Limb Extinction Technique

7.3.1 Satellite-Sun Geometry and Theoretical Foundation
7.3.2 Satellite Remote Sensing of Ozone
7.3.3 Satellite Remote Sensing of Aerosols
7.3.4 Satellite Remote Sensing of Land Surfaces
7.3.5 Cloud Optical Depth and Particle Size

7.3.5.1 Bidirectional reflectance
7.3.5.2 Polarization
7.3.5.3 Reflected line spectrum

7.4.1 Theoretical Foundation
7.4.2 Surface Temperature Determination
7.4.3 Remote Sensing of Temperature Profiles

7.4.3.1 Nonlinear iteration method
7.4.3.2 Minimum variance method: Hybrid retrieval
7.4.3.3 Cloud removal

7.4.4 Remote Sensing of Water Vapor and Trace Gas Profiles

7.4.4.1 Water vapor from the 6.3 um vibrational-rotational band
7.4.4.2 Limb scanning technique

7.4.5 Infrared Remote Sensing of Clouds

7.4.5.1 slicing technique for cloud top pressure and emissivity
7.4.5.2 Emitted radiance for cloud cover
7.4.4.3 Retrieval of cirrus cloud optical depth and temperature
7.4.5.4 Information content in infrared line spectrum

7.4.6 Remote Sounding of Infrared Cooling Rate and Surface Flux

7.5 REMOTE SENSING USING EMITTED MICROWAVE RADIATION

7.5.1 Microwave Spectrum and Microwave Radiative Transfer
7.5.2 Rainfall Rate and Water Vapor Determination from Microwave Emission
7.5.3 Temperature Retrieval from Microwave Sounders

7.6 REMOTE SENSING USING LASER AND MICROWAVE ENERGIES

7.6.1 Backscattering Equation: Theoretical Foundation
7.6.2 Lidar Differential Absorption and Depolarization Technique

7.6.2.1 Differential absorption technique
7.6.2.2 Principle of depolarization

7.6.3 Millimeter-Wave Radar for Cloud Study

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