J6.2 THE APPLICATION OF SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES TO ANALYSIS OF GLOBAL SATELLITE DATA SETS FROM MlSR

The Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) is one of a suite of five instruments onboard NASA's Terra EOS satellite, launched in December 1999. Typical satellite imagers view the earth from a single direction, but MISR's cameras image the earth simultaneously from nine different directions in four spectral bands. In this way, MlSR provides unique multiangle information about solar radiation scattered from clouds, aerosols and other terrestrial surfaces. One of the primary goals of the MlSR mission is to improve our understanding of how ctouds and aerosols affect the earth's global energy balance.