Evaluation of the Multi-Angle Implementation of Atmospheric Correction (MAIAC) Aerosol Algorithm for Himawari-8 Data
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Data and Methods
2.1. AERONET Data
2.2. JMA AHI AOD Products
2.3. GeoNEX AHI AOD Products
2.4. Comparison of Contemporaneous AERONET and Satellite Retrieved AOD
3. Results
3.1. MAIAC and AERONET AOD Comparison
3.2. Error Dependence on AERONET AOD
3.3. Error Dependence on Scattering Angle
3.4. Time Series Examples
4. Discussion
4.1. MAIAC Algorithm Accuracy
4.2. MAIAC Algorithm Error Dependence on Scattering Angle
4.3. MAIAC and JMA Comparison
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Product | QA Band Bit | Definition |
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JMA | 4-5 | AOD confidence 00--very good 01--good 10--Marginal 11--no confidence (or no retrieval) |
MAIAC | 8-11 | QA for AOD 0000 --- Best quality 0001 --- Water Sediments are detected (water) 0011 --- There is 1 neighbor cloud 0100 --- There are >1 neighbor clouds 0101 --- No retrieval (cloudy, or whatever) 0110 --- No retrievals near detected or previously detected snow 0111 --- Climatology AOD: altitude above 3.5 km (water) and 4.2 km (land) 1000 --- No retrieval due to sun glint (water) 1001 --- Retrieved AOD is very low (<0.05) due to glint (water) 1010 --- AOD within ±2 km from the coastline (may be unreliable) 1011 --- Land, research quality: AOD retrieved but CM is possibly cloudy |
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She, L.; Zhang, H.; Wang, W.; Wang, Y.; Shi, Y. Evaluation of the Multi-Angle Implementation of Atmospheric Correction (MAIAC) Aerosol Algorithm for Himawari-8 Data. Remote Sens. 2019, 11, 2771. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11232771
She L, Zhang H, Wang W, Wang Y, Shi Y. Evaluation of the Multi-Angle Implementation of Atmospheric Correction (MAIAC) Aerosol Algorithm for Himawari-8 Data. Remote Sensing. 2019; 11(23):2771. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11232771
Chicago/Turabian StyleShe, Lu, Hankui Zhang, Weile Wang, Yujie Wang, and Yun Shi. 2019. "Evaluation of the Multi-Angle Implementation of Atmospheric Correction (MAIAC) Aerosol Algorithm for Himawari-8 Data" Remote Sensing 11, no. 23: 2771. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11232771