ATMS 570: Remote Sensing (Howard University)
Project 1: Using Satellite Imagery to Investigate Cyclone Titli
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Figure 1.1: Cyclone Titli closing in on the East Coast of India on October 11th, 2018.
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Figure 2.1: SNAP version of Cyclone Titli
closing in on the East Coast of India on October 11th, 2018.
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Figure 3.1: NDVI vegetation index of India
and portions of Northwest Africa.
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Figure 4.1: The unsupervised classification
version of India and Northwest Africa during Cyclone Titli’s lifecycle.
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.Figure 5.1a: A snapshot of
defining classes for vector data,
such as water, land, vegetation, and the cyclone.
Figure 5.1b: Minimum distance supervised classification of Cyclone
Titli.
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Project 2: Comparison of Cloud Top Pressure Retrieval from MODIS and AIRS sensors aboard the Aqua
Satellite over Central Indonesia
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Table 1: Side-by-side information of MODIS and AIRS sensors aboard NASA’s
AQUA satellite.
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Figure 1.2: The data factors used for cloud top pressure analysis.
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Figure 2.2a: MODIS AQUA cloud top pressure measured from 0-500 hPa from September - November for
central Indonesia. Figure 2.2b: SO2 concentration path lengths from the Mount Merapi volcanic eruptions November 4th-8th, 2010.
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Figure 3.2: AIRS cloud top pressure measured from 0-500 hPa from September - November for central
Indonesia. Figure 4.2:
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