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Data Fusion of MODIS AOD and OMIAOD over East China Using Universal Kriging
Received date: 2014-12-24
Request revised date: 2015-02-26
Online published: 2015-10-10
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Aerosol optical thickness (AOD) can represent the attenuation of solar radiation caused by aerosol, and reflect the atmospheric turbidity or air quality conditions as one of the most important parameters. It is an excellent data source for atmosphere and air quality studies as the atomosphere environment is deteriorating in recent years. Nowadays, there are many kinds of AOD satellite products with good spatial coverage which can be employed to atmospheric environmental researches and the related studies. However, the accuracy and certainty of these satellite products can not meet the increasing demands. Fortunately, the AOD retrieved from AErosol RObotic NETwork (AERONET) exhibits better quality, although their spatial representativeness are localized. With the help of quadratic polynomial interpolation and regression analysis methods, we employed the universal kriging method to integrate both types of AOD products (satellite AOD and AERONET AOD) for analyzing Eastern China in November 2008. Results showed that the quadratic polynomial interpolation method is much better than Angstrom on band interpolation in this study. The comparison between AERONET AOD products and satellite AOD products showed that the fused results (integrated with AOD products) retrieved from universal kriging data fusion method presented a better spatial resolution, wider coverage and higher accuracy. For East China, AOD values in the northern part are higher than the southern part in November 2008; for Yangtze River Delta region, the northeastern of Anhui and the eastern part of Shanxi hold higher AOD values, while the AOD values in southern part of Jiangsu are lower. In addition, this paper has confirmed that the universal kriging data fusion method can provide good fused AOD products in the cases that AERONET AOD data is inadequate and the transit time of different sensors is asynchronous. The AOD data fusion system proposed in this paper can provide better AOD products for relevant scientific researches.
Key words: universal kriging; AOD; data fusion; East China
LI Long , SHI Runhe , ZHANG Lu , ZHANG Jie , ZHOU Cong , XU Yanping , GAO Wei . Data Fusion of MODIS AOD and OMIAOD over East China Using Universal Kriging[J]. Journal of Geo-information Science, 2015 , 17(10) : 1224 -1233 . DOI: 10.3724/SP.J.1047.2015.01224
Fig. 1 Research region and distribution of AERONET sites图1 研究区域与AERONET站点分布 |
Tab. 1 Parameters of Aqua and Aura表1 Aqua和Aura卫星参数 |
卫星参数 | Aqua(MODIS) | Aura(OMI) |
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发射时间 | 2002-05-04 | 2004-07-15 |
轨道类型 | 太阳同步 | 太阳同步 |
轨道高度(km) | 705 | 705 |
轨道周期(min) | 98.8 | 98.8 |
过境时间 | L.T 13:30 | L.T 13:45 |
Fig.2 The temporal characteristics of AERONET AOD in East China, 2008图2 2008年华东地区AERONET站点AOD时间分布情况 |
Tab. 2 Comparison between quadratic polynomial method and Angstrom wavelength exponent method表2 二次多项式法和Angstrom波长指数法AOD波段插值结果比较(波长单位:nm) |
传感器 | 二次多项式法 | Angstrom波长指数法 | |||||
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插值波长 | 结果波长 | MAE | 插值波长 | 结果波长 | MAE | ||
OMI | 342.5, 388, 442 | 483.5 | 0.001 | 342.5, 388 | 483.5 | 0.019 | |
342.5, 442, 483.5 | 388 | 0.001 | 342.5, 483.5 | 388 | 0.009 | ||
AERONET | 440, 500, 675 | 870 | 0.010 | 440, 675 | 870 | 0.017 | |
440, 500, 870 | 675 | 0.007 | 440, 870 | 675 | 0.014 |
Fig.3 Correlations between different AOD products图3 不同传感器AOD数据之间的相关性 |
Fig. 4 Distributions of mean AOD in November 2008图4 2008年11月AOD平均分布情况 |
Fig. 5 UK fusion result and its uncertainy图5 UK融合结果及其不确定性 |
Fig. 6 Final fusion results图6 线性回归分析后的融合结果 |
Tab.3 Monthly averages of AOD source data, UK fusion results and their differences at each AERONET site表3 AERONET站点处AOD数据源月均值、UK融合结果月均值及相应的月均值差 |
站点 | MODIS | OMI | UK | AERONET | MODIS-AERONET | OMI-AERONET | UK-AERONET |
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合肥 | 0.590 | 0.688 | 0.493 | 0.536 | 0.054 | 0.152 | -0.043 |
寿县 | 0.435 | 0.366 | 0.534 | 0.504 | -0.069 | -0.138 | 0.030 |
太湖 | 0.453 | 0.487 | 0.474 | 0.467 | -0.014 | 0.020 | 0.010 |
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
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