Encyclopedia of Remote Sensing
Encyclopedia of Remote Sensing
Editor/Author
Njoku, Eni G.
Publication Year: 2014
Publisher: Springer Science+Business Media
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ISBN: 978-0-387-36698-2
Category: Geography
Image Count:
372
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
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