Spectral Imaging of the Atmosphere
- 1st Edition, Volume 82 - July 15, 2002
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Author: Gordon G. Shepherd
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 3 9 9 5 0 7 - 0
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 6 3 9 4 8 1 - 8
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 0 5 1 7 5 1 - 3
Optical instruments are routinely employed to obtain a wealth of information about the atmosphere, including its composition, temperature, and winds. A bewildering variety of… Read more
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Request a sales quoteOptical instruments are routinely employed to obtain a wealth of information about the atmosphere, including its composition, temperature, and winds. A bewildering variety of optical instruments have been proposed over the years, making it difficult to decide which instrument should be chosen to make a specific measurement. Spectral Imaging of the Atmosphere traces the historical development of both spectral and imaging methods and places them in a unified framework relevant to observations of the troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere and thermosphere. The underlying concepts of various measurement methodologies are presented and paired with appropriate applications. A selection of specific spectral imaging instruments, appropriate to illustrate each conceptual type, is described in detail.Shepherd's work provides both scientists and engineers with an in-depth understanding of the fundamental concepts they need to know in order to plan a program of atmospheric measurements. Expected future methods and developments are also presented. Problems designed to test and enhance the reader's understanding of the material are included in each chapter.
Provides a unique and unifed approach to the methodology of optical atmospheric observations from the troposphere through the thermosphere, which allows the practitioner to choose the best instrument for a given measurement.Describes state-of-the-art atmospheric observing instruments with an eye to future developments.Includes problems designed to test and enhance students' unerstanding of the material presented in each chapter.Contains concise descriptions of selected current and planned spectral imagers, including the Fabry-Perot spectrometer, the Michelson interferometer and the diffraction grating spectrometer.Written from a scientific perspective in an engineering framework, this work is accessible to atmospheric scientists and instrumentation engineers alike.
Graduate students through senior researchers in electron optics and meteorological sciences. Especially those working with imaging and satellite data analysis.
1. Observing Atmospheric Radiation2. Spectral Concepts3. Instrument Responsivity and Superiority4. Imaging Concepts5. The Fabry-Perot Spectrometer6. The Michelson Interferometer7. Multiplexers and Modulators8. Doppler Michelson Interferometry9. Operational Atmospheric Spectral Imagers10. Future Atmospheric Spectral Imagers11. Grating Spectrometers as Spectral Imagers
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 82
- Published: July 15, 2002
- No. of pages (Hardback): 304
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780123995070
- Hardback ISBN: 9780126394818
- eBook ISBN: 9780080517513
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Gordon G. Shepherd
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Professor, Department of Neurobiology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USARead Spectral Imaging of the Atmosphere on ScienceDirect