China Dust-storm Monitoring Using Meteorological Satellite

  • Xiuqing, Hu (National Satellite Meteorological Center) ;
  • Naimeng, Lu (National Satellite Meteorological Center) ;
  • Peng, Zhang (National Satellite Meteorological Center) ;
  • Qian, Huang (National Satellite Meteorological Center)
  • Published : 2003.11.03

Abstract

Dust-storm is one of the heaviest hazardous weather which frequently affects most part of northern China in spring. Satellite multi-spectral observations can provide significant information for detecting and quantitative determining the property of dust-storm . An algorithm to monitor dust-storm automatically was developed based on satellite observation. The algorithm utilizes split widows technique and spectral classification technique and also developed a new dust remote sensing product Infra -red Difference Dust Index (IDDI) proxy dust-loading dataset using GMS-5.

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