Advanced remote sensing in preparation for NASA's PACE mission

Session ID#: 122207

Session Description:
The NASA Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission will extend key heritage ocean color, cloud, and aerosol data records and enable new insight into oceanographic and atmospheric responses to Earth's changing climate. PACE’s primary instrument is a global-coverage spectrometer that spans the ultraviolet to near-infrared region. PACE's spectrometer will be complemented by two cubesat-sized multi-angle hyperspectral and hyper-angular polarimeters making measurements which will significantly improve aerosol and hydrosol characterizations, provide opportunities for novel ocean color atmospheric correction, and offer unique space-borne cloud observations. The goal of this session is to showcase new and improved remote sensing techniques that make use of the type of multi-angle, hyperspectral and polarimetric observations provided by PACE, together with applications that are facilitated by these enhanced remote sensing capabilities.
Index Terms:

0319 Cloud optics [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
3311 Clouds and aerosols [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3359 Radiative processes [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3360 Remote sensing [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]


Primary Convener:  Brian Cairns, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States
Convener:  Lorraine Ann Remer, University of MD Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  Brian Cairns, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States
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