This first encyclopaedic reference on remote sensing describes the concepts, techniques, instrumentation, data analysis, interpretation, and applications of remote sensing, both airborne and space-based. Scientists, engineers, academics, and students can quickly access answers to their reference questions and direction for further study.

Table of Contents

• Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series Editors
• Contributors
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• A
• Acoustic Radiation - Alain Weill
• Acoustic Tomography, Ocean - Brian Dushaw
• Acoustic Waves, Propagation - Alain Weill
• Acoustic Waves, Scattering - Alain Weill
• Aerosols - Ralph Kahn
• Agricultural Expansion and Abandonment - Jiaguo Qi
• Agriculture and Remote Sensing - Jerry Hatfield and Susan Moran
• Air Pollution - Annmarie Eldering
• Atmospheric General Circulation Models - Joao Teixeira, Mark Taylor, Anders Persson and Georgios Matheou
• C
• Calibration and Validation - Andreas Colliander
• Calibration, Microwave Radiometers - Christopher Ruf
• Calibration, Optical/Infrared Passive Sensors - Carol Bruegge
• Calibration, Synthetic Aperture Radars - Anthony Freeman
• Calibration, Scatterometers - David Long
• Climate Data Records - Eric F. Wood
• Climate Monitoring and Prediction - Mathew R. P. Sapiano
• Cloud Liquid Water - Fuzhong Weng
• Cloud Properties - Matthew Lebsock and Steve Cooper
• Coastal Ecosystems - Xiaojun Yang
• Commercial Remote Sensing - William Gail
• Cosmic-Ray Hydrometeorology - Darin Desilets and Marek Zreda
• Cost Benefit Assessment - Molly Macauley
• Crop Stress - Susan Moran
• Cryosphere and Polar Region Observing System - Mark Drinkwater
• Cryosphere, Climate Change Effects - Aixue Hu
• Cryosphere, Climate Change Feedbacks - Peter J. Minnett
• Cryosphere, Measurements and Applications - Roger Barry
• D
• Data Access - Ron Weaver
• Data Archival and Distribution - Mark A. Parsons
• Data Archives and Repositories - Ruth Duerr
• Data Assimilation - Dennis McLaughlin
• Data Policies - Ray Harris
• Data Processing, SAR Sensors - Jakob van Zyl
• Decision Fusion, Classification of Multisource Data - Björn Waske and Jón Atli Benediktsson
• E
• Earth Radiation Budget, Top-of-Atmosphere Radiation - Bing Lin
• Earth System Models - Andrea Donnellan
• Electromagnetic Theory and Wave Propagation - Yang Du
• Emerging Applications - William Gail
• Emerging Technologies - Jason Hyon
• Emerging Technologies, Free-Space Optical Communications - Hamid Hemmati
• Emerging Technologies, Lidar - David M. Tratt
• Emerging Technologies, Radar - Alina Moussessian
• Emerging Technologies, Radiometer - Todd Gaier
• Emerging Technologies, Sensor Web - Mahta Moghaddam, Agnelo Silva and Mingyan Liu
• Environmental Treaties - Alexander de Sherbinin
• F
• Fields and Radiation - Frank S. Marzano
• Fisheries - Cara Wilson
• Forestry - Dar Roberts
• G
• Gamma and X-Radiation - Enrico Costa and Fabio Muleri
• Geodesy - Calvin Klatt
• Geological Mapping Using Earth's Magnetic Field - Vernon H. Singhroy and Mark Pilkington
• Geomorphology - David Pieri
• Geophysical Retrieval, Forward Models in Remote Sensing - Eugene Ustinov
• Geophysical Retrieval, Inverse Problems in Remote Sensing - Eugene Ustinov
• Geophysical Retrieval, Overview - Eugene Ustinov
• Global Climate Observing System - Jean-Louis Fellous
• Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) - Steffen Fritz
• Global Land Observing System - Johannes A. Dolman
• Global Programs, Operational Systems - Mary Kicza
• GPS, Occultation Systems - Chi O. Ao
• I
• Ice Sheets and Ice Volume - Robert Thomas
• Icebergs - Donald L. Murphy
• International Collaboration - Lisa Robock Shaffer
• Ionospheric Effects on the Propagation of Electromagnetic Waves - Attila Komjathy
• Irrigation Management - Steven R. Evett, Paul D. Colaizzi, Susan A. O'Shaughnessy, Douglas J. Hunsaker and Robert G. Evans
• L
• Land Surface Emissivity - Alan Gillespie
• Land Surface Roughness - Thomas Farr
• Land Surface Temperature - Alan Gillespie
• Land Surface Topography - G. Bryan Bailey
• Land-Atmosphere Interactions, Evapotranspiration - Joshua B. Fisher
• Landslides - Vernon H. Singhroy
• Law of Remote Sensing - Joanne Irene Gabrynowicz
• Lidar Systems - Robert Menzies
• Lightning - Rachel I. Albrecht, Daniel J. Cecil and Steven J. Goodman
• Limb Sounding, Atmospheric - Nathaniel Livesey
• M
• Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) - Baijun Tian and Duane Waliser
• Magnetic Field - Nils Olsen
• Media, Electromagnetic Characteristics - Yang Du
• Microwave Dielectric Properties of Materials - Martti Hallikainen
• Microwave Horn Antennas - Yahya Rahmat-Samii
• Microwave Radiometers - Niels Skou
• Microwave Radiometers, Conventional - Niels Skou
• Microwave Radiometers, Correlation - Christopher Ruf
• Microwave Radiometers, Interferometers - Manuel Martin-Neira
• Microwave Radiometers, Polarimeters - David Kunkee
• Microwave Subsurface Propagation and Scattering - Alexander Yarovoy
• Microwave Surface Scattering and Emission - David R. Lyzenga
• Mission Costs of Earth-Observing Satellites - Randall Friedl and Stacey Boland
• Mission Operations, Science Applications/Requirements - David L. Glackin
• O
• Observational Platforms, Aircraft, and UAVs - Jeffrey Myers
• Observational Systems, Satellite - David L. Glackin
• Ocean Applications of Interferometric SAR - Roland Romeiser
• Ocean Data Telemetry - Michael R. Prior-Jones
• Ocean Internal Waves - Werner Alpers
• Ocean Measurements and Applications, Ocean Color - Samantha Lavender
• Ocean Modeling and Data Assimilation - Detlef Stammer
• Ocean Surface Topography - Lee-Lueng Fu
• Ocean Surface Velocity - Bertrand Chapron, Johnny Johannessen and Fabrice Collard
• Ocean, Measurements and Applications - Ian Robinson
• Ocean-Atmosphere Water Flux and Evaporation - W. Timothy Liu and Xiaosu Xie
• Operational Transition - Richard Anthes
• Optical/Infrared, Atmospheric Absorption/ Transmission, and Media Spectral Properties - Gian Luigi Liberti
• Optical/Infrared, Radiative Transfer - Knut Stamnes
• Optical/Infrared, Scattering by Aerosols and Hydrometeors - Gian Luigi Liberti
• P
• Pattern Recognition and Classification - Björn Waske and Jón Atli Benediktsson
• Polar Ice Dynamics - James Maslanik
• Polar Ocean Navigation - Lawson Brigham
• Policies and Economics - Roberta Balstad
• Precision Agriculture - Kelly Thorp
• Processing Levels - Ron Weaver
• Public-Private Partnerships - William Gail
• R
• Radar, Altimeters - Keith Raney
• Radar, Scatterometers - David Long
• Radar, Synthetic Aperture - Keith Raney
• Radars - Keith Raney
• Radiation (Natural) Within the Earth's Environment - Anthony England
• Radiation Sources (Natural) and Characteristics - Anthony England
• Radiation, Electromagnetic - Frank S. Marzano
• Radiation, Galactic, and Cosmic Background - David M. Le Vine
• Radiation, Multiple Scattering - Frank S. Marzano
• Radiation, Polarization, and Coherence - Yang Du
• Radiation, Solar and Lunar - David M. Le Vine
• Radiation, Volume Scattering - Leung Tsang and Kung-Hau Ding
• Radiative Transfer, Solution Techniques - Rodolfo Guzzi
• Radiative Transfer, Theory - Frank S. Marzano
• Radio-Frequency Interference (RFI) in Passive Microwave Sensing - David Kunkee
• Rainfall - Ralph Ferraro
• Rangelands and Grazing - Hunt E. Raymond Jr.
• Reflected Solar Radiation Sensors, Multiangle Imaging - David J. Diner
• Reflected Solar Radiation Sensors, Polarimetric - David J. Diner
• Reflector Antennas - Yahya Rahmat-Samii
• Remote Sensing and Geologic Structure - Vernon H. Singhroy and Paul Lowman
• Remote Sensing, Historical Perspective - Vincent V. Salomonson
• Remote Sensing, Physics and Techniques - David L. Glackin
• Resource Exploration - Fred A. Kruse and Sandra L. Perry
• S
• SAR-Based Bathymetry - Han Wensink and Werner Alpers
• Sea Ice Albedo - Donald Perovich
• Sea Ice Concentration and Extent - Josefino C. Comiso
• Sea Level Rise - Josh Willis
• Sea Surface Salinity - Gary Lagerloef
• Sea Surface Temperature - Peter J. Minnett
• Sea Surface Wind/Stress Vector - W. Timothy Liu and Xiaosu Xie
• Severe Storms - Charles A. III Doswell
• Snowfall - Ralf Bennartz
• Soil Moisture - Yann Kerr
• Soil Properties - Alfredo Huete
• Solid Earth Mass Transport - Erik Ivins
• Stratospheric Ozone - Michelle Santee
• Subsidence - Stuart Marsh and Martin Culshaw
• Surface Radiative Fluxes - Rachel T. Pinker
• Surface Truth - Christopher Ruf
• Surface Water - Michael Durand
• T
• Terrestrial Snow - Son V. Nghiem, Dorothy K. Hall, James L. Foster and Gregory Neumann
• Thermal Radiation Sensors (Emitted) - Simon Hook
• Trace Gases, Stratosphere, and Mesosphere - Nathaniel Livesey
• Trace Gases, Troposphere - Detection from Space - Pieternel F. Levelt, J. P. Veefkind and K. F. Boersma
• Trafficability of Desert Terrains - Charles Hibbitts
• Tropospheric Winds - Chris Velden
• U
• Ultraviolet Remote Sensing - Arlin Krueger
• Ultraviolet Sensors - Arlin Krueger
• Urban Environments, Beijing Case Study - Son V. Nghiem, Alessandro Sorichetta, Christopher D. Elvidge, Christopher Small, Deborah Balk, Uwe Deichmann and Gregory Neumann
• Urban Heat Island - Lela Prashad
• V
• Vegetation Indices - Alfredo Huete
• Vegetation Phenology - John Kimball
• Volcanism - Michael J. Abrams
• W
• Water and Energy Cycles - Taikan Oki and Pat J.-F. Yeh
• Water Resources - Taikan Oki and Pat J.-F. Yeh
• Water Vapor - Eric Fetzer
• Weather Prediction - Peter Bauer
• Wetlands - John Melack