Aerosol remote sensing with the NASA Glory mission

One of the principal objectives of the NASA Glory mission is to determine the global distribution of detailed aerosol and cloud properties with unprecedented accuracy, thereby facilitating the quantification of the aerosol direct and indirect radiative forcings. This objective will be met by flying the Aerosol Polarimetry Sensor which will collect accurate multi-angle photopolarimetric measurements of the Earth along the satellite ground track within a wide spectral range extending from the visible to the short-wave infrared.