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TERRA- 1: Understanding The Terrestrial Environment
The Role of Earth Observations from Space
- 251 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF
TERRA- 1: Understanding The Terrestrial Environment
The Role of Earth Observations from Space
About this book
This text aims to offer information on research approaches to assessing global environment changes. It includes suggestions for the exchange of ideas between those studying land surface and remote sensing specialists, and advocates synthesizing the findings of different disciplines.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Preface
- List of contributors
- List of acronyms
- 1 Remote sensing the land surface water budget
- 2 The use of visible satellite imagery over ice sheets
- 3 'Long-term' land surface processes: erosion, tectonics and climate history in mountain belts
- 4 Applications of satellite remote sensing techniques to volcanology
- 5 Soil/vegetation characteristics at microwave wavelengths
- 6 Synergistic use of multispectral satellite data for monitoring arid lands
- 7 Remote sensing inputs to climate models
- 8 Atmosphere-biosphere exchange of CO(sub[2])
- 9 Observational studies of the land/atmosphere interaction
- 10 Monitoring global tropical deforestation: a challenge for remote sensing
- 11 Achievements and unresolved problems in vegetation monitoring
- 12 ERS-1 land and ice applications
- 13 The EOS Data and Information System (EOSDIS)
- 14 The ESA Earth Observation Polar Platform Programme
- 15 Temperature-independent thermal infrared spectral indices and land surface temperature determined from space
- 16 Extracting surface properties from satellite data in the visible and nearinfrared wavelengths
- 17 Remote sensing and geographical information systems
- 18 Automated knowledge-based segmentation of SAR images
- 19 Large-scale environmental databases: the example of CORINE
- Index