A ROBUST SATELLITE TECHNIQUE (RST) FOR DUST STORM DETECTION AND MONITORING: THE CASE OF 2009 AUSTRALIAN EVENT

Browse > Conferences> Geoscience and Remote Sensing Back to Results A Robust Satellite Technique (RST) for dust storm detection and monitoring: The case of 2009 Australian event 5650621 searchabstract Your Subscription Has Expired Please contact your account manager to renew your institutional subscription. Alternate access options are included below. PLEASE SELECT FROM THE OPTIONS BELOW. Tramutoli, V. ; Filizzola, C. ; Marchese, F. ; Mazzeo, G. ; Paciello, R. ; Pergola, N. ; Pietrapertosa, C. ; Sannazzaro, F. ; Dept. of Eng. & Phys. of the Environ., Univ. of Basilicata, Potenza, Italy This paper appears in: Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2010 IEEE International Issue Date : 25-30 July 2010 On page(s): 1707 - 1709 ISSN : 2153-6996 E-ISBN : 978-1-4244-9564-1 Print ISBN: 978-1-4244-9565-8 References Cited: 25 INSPEC Accession Number: 11686826 Digital Object Identifier : 10.1109/IGARSS.2010.5650621 Date of Current Version : 03 dicembre 2010 Abstract In this paper, an original method of satellite data analysis named RST (Robust Satellite Technique), already successfully used to study and monitor several natural and environmental hazards, is applied for the first time to a recent dust storm occurred in Australia in September 2009. This event was analyzed implementing RST on MTSAT-1R (Multi-functional Transport Satellite-1Replacement) Japanese geostationary satellite data. Some preliminary results of this study are presented, discussing RST performances even in comparison with traditional split window satellite techniques.