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Tomographic reconstruction of an aerosol plume using passive multiangle...

Garay, M., A. B. Davis, and D. Diner (2016), Tomographic reconstruction of an aerosol plume using passive multiangle observations from the MISR satellite instrument, Geophys. Res. Lett., 43, 12,590-12,596, doi:10.1002/2016GL071479.
Abstract: 

We present initial results using computed tomography to reconstruct the three-dimensional structure of an aerosol plume from passive observations made by the Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) instrument on NASA’s Terra satellite. MISR views the Earth from nine different angles at four visible and near-infrared wavelengths. Adopting the 672 nm channel, we treat each view as an independent measure of aerosol optical thickness along the line of sight at 1.1 km resolution. A smoke plume over dark water is selected as it provides a more tractable lower boundary condition for the retrieval. A tomographic algorithm is used to reconstruct the horizontal and vertical aerosol extinction field for one along-track slice from the path of all camera rays passing through a regular grid. The results compare well with ground-based lidar observations from a nearby Micropulse Lidar Network site.

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Research Program: 
Radiation Science Program (RSP)
Mission: 
Terra- MISR
Funding Sources: 
ROSES/ESTO/AIST