TERRA- 1: Understanding The Terrestrial Environment
eBook - ePub

TERRA- 1: Understanding The Terrestrial Environment

The Role of Earth Observations from Space

  1. 251 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

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

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. Preface
  7. List of contributors
  8. List of acronyms
  9. Chapter 1: Remote sensing the land surface water budget
  10. Chapter 2: The use of visible satellite imagery over ice sheets
  11. Chapter 3: ‘Long-term’ land surface processes: erosion, tectonics and climate history in mountain belts
  12. Chapter 4: Applications of satellite remote sensing techniques to volcanology
  13. Chapter 5: Soil/vegetation characteristics at microwave wavelengths
  14. Chapter 6: Synergistic use of multispectral satellite data for monitoring arid lands
  15. Chapter 7: Remote sensing inputs to climate models
  16. Chapter 8: Atmosphere-biosphere exchange of CO2
  17. Chapter 9: Observational studies of the land/atmosphere interaction
  18. Chapter 10: Monitoring global tropical deforestation: a challenge for remote sensing
  19. Chapter 11: Achievements and unresolved problems in vegetation monitoring
  20. Chapter 12: ERS-1 land and ice applications
  21. Chapter 13: The EOS Data and Information System (EOSDIS)
  22. Chapter 14: The ESA Earth Observation Polar Platform Programme
  23. Chapter 15: Temperature-independent thermal infrared spectral indices and land surface temperature determined from space
  24. Chapter 16: Extracting surface properties from satellite data in the visible and near-infrared wavelengths
  25. Chapter 17: Remote sensing and geographical information systems
  26. Chapter 18: Automated knowledge-based segmentation of SAR images
  27. Chapter 19: Large-scale environmental databases: the example of CORINE
  28. Index