Semi-real time media contents on haze hazard in Ganges River Basin

[ABSTRACT]The world most populated river basin, Ganges river basin, which runs from the central Himalayas to the Bay of Bengal, faces numerous natural and manmade environmental disasters. With the increase of population and industrial activities in resent decades in the basin, a hazardous haze layer in winter months are forming annually over the basin, causing many deaths and other health complications. The thick haze in winter months further increases cold temperature while hazardously decreasing the visibility for road and air traffic. Due to the gravity of this hazard, it's important to bring haze cover information to public to enhance the understanding and to get the appropriate attention to the situation. Here, production of semi:..real time media contents on the hazard plays a vital role. Moderate resolution daily MODIS satellite data are highly suitable to monitor the haze for such content production. This research uses freely accessible MODIS data to monitor haze development and movements over Ganges basin to produce semi-real time mass media contents. The content making is emphasized on academically sound image processing and production of easy to understand graphic products.

https://opac.ll.chiba-u.jp/da/curator/106654/

https://opac.ll.chiba-u.jp/da/curator/106654/ceresIntlSympo-14-P185.pdf

Chiba University. Center for Environmental Remote Sensing

千葉大学環境リモートセンシング研究センター

会議発表用資料

Proceedings of the CEReS international symposium = CEReS国際シンポジウム資料集

14

185

188

2008-11-13

publisher

環境リモートセンシング研究センター「CEReSシンポジウム資料集」