Global dust Detection Index (GDDI); a new remotely sensed methodology for dust storms detection

Journal of Environmental Health Science Engineering

Mohamad Saeed Najafi³  Hossein Mohamadi⁴  Seyed Kazem Alavipanah²  Ali Darvishi Boloorani¹  Mehdi Samadi¹ 

[1] Geoinformatics Research Institute (GRI), University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran;Department of Remote Sensing and GIS, Faculty of Geography, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran;Faculty of Geography, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran;Department of Physical Geography, Faculty of Geography, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

关键词: MODIS;    Dust detection index;    Remote sensing;   

Others  :  810668
DOI  :  10.1186/2052-336X-12-20

 received in 2013-02-13, accepted in 2013-11-02,  发布年份 2014

【 摘 要 】

Dust storm occurs frequently in arid and semi-arid areas of the world. This natural phenomenon, which is the result of stormy winds, raises a lot of dust from desert surfaces and decreases visibility to less than 1 km. In recent years the temporal frequency of occurrences and their spatial extents has been dramatically increased. West of Iran, especially in spring and summer, suffers from significant increases of these events which cause several social and economic problems. Detecting and recognizing the extent of dust storms is very important issue in designing warning systems, management and decreasing the risk of this phenomenon. As the process of monitoring and prediction are related to detection of this phenomenon and it's separation from other atmospheric phenomena such as cloud, so the main aim of this research is establishing an automated process for detection of dust masses. In this study 20 events of dust happened in western part of Iran during 2000–2011 have been recognized and studied. To the aim of detecting dust events we used satellite images of MODIS sensor. Finally a model based on reflectance and thermal infrared bands has been developed. The efficiency of this method has been checked using dust events. Results show that the model has a good performance in all cases. It also has the ability and robustness to be used in any dust storm forecasting and warning system.

【 授权许可】

   
2014 Samadi et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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