Encyclopedia of Remote Sensing

Editor/Author Njoku, Eni G.
Publication Year: 2014
Publisher: Springer Science+Business Media

Single-User Purchase Price: $499.00
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ISBN: 978-0-387-36698-2
Category: Geography
Image Count: 372
Book Status: Available
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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.

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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