Development of data processing, interpretation and analysis system for the remote sensing of trace atmospheric gas species. Final report, 22 January 1982-15 January 1986

Technical Report · Tue Mar 31 23:00:00 EST 1987

OSTI ID:5893379

Casas, J C; Saylor, M S; Kindle, E C

The major emphasis is on the advancement of remote sensing technology. In particular, the gas filter correlation radiometer (GFCR) technique was applied to the measurement of trace gas species, such as carbon monoxide (CO), from airborne and Earth orbiting platforms. Through a series of low altitude aircraft flights, high altitude aircraft flights, and orbiting space platform flights, data were collected and analyzed, culminating in the first global map of carbon monoxide concentration in the middle troposphere and stratosphere. The four major areas of this remote sensing program, known as the Measurement of Air Pollution from Satellites (MAPS) experiment, are: (1) data acquisition, (2) data processing, analysis, and interpretation algorithms, (3) data display techniques, and (4) information processing.

• Research Organization: Old Dominion Univ., Norfolk, VA (USA)
• OSTI ID: 5893379
• Report Number(s): N-87-27334; NASA-CR-180619; NAS-1.26:180619; GSTR-87-1
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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500200* -- Environment
Atmospheric-- Chemicals Monitoring & Transport-- (-1989)
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
AIR POLLUTION
ALGORITHMS
CARBON COMPOUNDS
CARBON MONOXIDE
CARBON OXIDES
CHALCOGENIDES
DATA ACQUISITION
DATA PROCESSING
EARTH ATMOSPHERE
MATHEMATICAL LOGIC
OXIDES
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
POLLUTION
PROCESSING
REMOTE SENSING
STRATOSPHERE
TROPOSPHERE