Principal Investigator (PI): Charles Ichoku, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

This is the first-year progress report for the above referenced grant, which deals with the collocation of aerosol measurements from multiple satellite sensors and the ground-based Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET) sun-photometers within an easily accessible web-based data system that will facilitate uniform cross-validation and inter-comparison of the aerosol products.

In the framework of this grant, we are pursuing the relevant research and related planning, design, and implementation activities in a coordinated fashion, so as to achieve the objectives successfully, while keeping up-to-date with the scientific and technological evolution in the field. These activities are summarized or listed in the following sections.