Remote Sensing of Clouds and the Atmosphere

Remote Sensing of Clouds, including topics: 

• cloud detection and characterization; cloud screening

• retrieval of cloud properties

• cirrus modeling and measurements, including scattering and absorption by nonspherical particles.

Radiative Transfer, including topics: 

• Earth radiation budget

• 3D radiative transfer and approximation methods

• retrieval methods, profiling, and data assimilation

• atmospheric correction.

Remote Sensing of the Middle and Upper Atmosphere, including topics: 

• studies of middle and upper atmosphere variability and climatology

• non-LTE radiative effects and transfer codes

• non-LTE retrieval methods

• remote sensing of constituents, dynamical and electrical structure, and wave motions

• advances in instrumentation.

Profiling of Atmospheric Aerosols, Trace Gases, and Meteorological Parameters of Remote Sensing, including topics: 

• trace gas retrieval and measurements from ground, air and space

• aerosol detection, measurements and retrievals from ground, and mobile (space/airborne) platforms

• limb (infrared, microwave) satellite retrievals targeting the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere (MIPAS, ACE-FTS, MLS, OMPS,....)

• air pollution monitoring including data and information fusion

• hyperspectral data processing.

Remote Sensing by FTIR, DOAS and Other Spectrometric Methods, including topics: 

• measurements of industrial, agricultural, biospheric, and volcanic emissions, including determination of emission source strengths

• environmental, disaster, and fire monitoring

• application of imaging methods

• GIS applications and data fusion

• advances in instrumentation and new technologies, including remote sensing of gas and aerosol releases.

Lidar, Radar, and Passive (Microwave, Infrared. Visible and Ultraviolet) Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, including topics: 

• advances in instrumentation

• advances in data evaluation and retrieval methods

• observations from mobile (space/airborne) platforms

• satellites to improve agri-food systems

• measurement accuracy assessment

• validation of satellite remote sensing

• sensor networking and interplay with mobile devices

• data fusion

• hyperspectral data processing

• applications of femtosecond lasers.