Assessment of Cloud Occurrence and Impact on Remote Sensing using Global, Open-Source, Scientific Datasets (REDACTED)

Abstract

This document discusses the prevalence of natural cloud blockages and their seasonal variations in a number of widely dispersed locations. The analysis leverages historical observations data from open sources, including three-dimensional cloud-profiling radar from CloudSat, a Colorado State project, and NASAs Cloud-Aerosol LIDAR with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP), and a two-dimensional cloud profile produced by NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), known as CloudMask. The data are used to estimate probabilities of cloud-free line-of-sight (PCFLOS), which are incorporated into an IDA intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) model. Spatial correlations are also examined.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2016
Accession Number
AD1124185

Entities

People

  • A. J. Slawik
  • E. A. Adelizzi
  • G. M. Koretsky

Organizations

  • Institute for Defense Analyses

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Sensors
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Artificial Satellites
  • Atmospheric Sciences
  • Case Studies
  • Climate Change
  • Databases
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Diffraction
  • Electromagnetic Radiation
  • Flux Density
  • Geography
  • Grids
  • Infrared Detectors
  • Meteorology
  • Military Operations
  • Optical Properties
  • Radiative Transfer
  • Remote Sensing
  • Scattering
  • Three Dimensional
  • Two Dimensional
  • Weather Forecasting

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Aerospace Engineering.
  • Atmospheric Remote Sensing.
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation