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Introduction to Environmental Remote Sensing » (3rd ed)
Authors: E.C. Barrett, D.E. Curtis
ISBN-13: 9780412371707, ISBN-10: 0412371707
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York, LLC
Date Published: July 2008
Edition: 3rd ed
Author Biography: E.C. Barrett
Book Synopsis
This book is a thoroughly revised and updated edition of the volumes of the same name published in 1974 and 1981. It provides its readers with a single, self-contained, fully-integrated and modern treatment of environmental remote sensing, progressing logically from the physical principles on which it is based, and the technologies and techniques which make it possible, to its ever-broadening range of past, present and future applications.
Table of Contents
| Preface | ||
| The authors | ||
| Abbreviations and acronyms | ||
| Pt. 1 | Remote Sensing Principles | |
| Ch. 1 | Monitoring the environment | 3 |
| 1.1 | Growth in awareness of environmental problems | 3 |
| 1.2 | In situ sensing of the environment | 5 |
| 1.3 | Remote sensing of the environment | 6 |
| 1.4 | Economic and practical benefits of remote sensing, past, present and future | 7 |
| 1.5 | The growth of remote sensing in geography and the environmental sciences | 12 |
| Ch. 2 | Physical bases of remote sensing | 15 |
| 2.1 | Natural remote sensing | 15 |
| 2.2 | Technologically assisted remote sensing | 16 |
| 2.3 | Electromagnetic energy | 18 |
| 2.4 | Radiation at source | 20 |
| 2.5 | Radiation in propagation | 23 |
| 2.6 | Radiation at its target | 25 |
| 2.7 | Radiation observed | 27 |
| 2.8 | General conclusions | 28 |
| Ch. 3 | Radiation characteristics of natural phenomena | 29 |
| 3.1 | Radiation from the Sun | 29 |
| 3.2 | Radiation from the Earth | 36 |
| 3.3 | Spectral signatures of the Earth's surface | 39 |
| Ch. 4 | Sensors for environmental monitoring | 47 |
| 4.2 | Passive sensors in the visible wavelengths | 47 |
| 4.3 | Passive sensors outside the visible wavelengths | 55 |
| 4.4 | Active sensors outside the visible wavelengths | 66 |
| Ch. 5 | Sensor platforms, sensor packages and satellite data distribution | 73 |
| 5.2 | Ground observation platforms | 74 |
| 5.3 | Airborne observation platforms | 75 |
| 5.4 | High-altitude sounding rockets | 79 |
| 5.5 | Satellite platforms | 80 |
| 5.6 | The Evolution of Earth Resources satellite observations | 82 |
| 5.7 | The Space Shuttle | 85 |
| 5.8 | The SPOT satellite system | 90 |
| 5.9 | The meteorological satellites | 93 |
| 5.10 | Geostationary meteorological satellites | 94 |
| 5.11 | Special purpose sensors and satellites | 95 |
| 5.12 | The ground segment and satellite data distribution | 97 |
| Ch. 6 | Calibration, evaluation and validation in remote sensing | 101 |
| 6.2 | Selection of ground data sites | 102 |
| 6.3 | Collateral data for crop studies | 105 |
| 6.4 | Field measurements of spectral reflectance | 107 |
| 6.5 | Fully integrated local area studies | 110 |
| 6.6 | Data sampling and tests for accuracy | 112 |
| 6.7 | Data collection systems for transmissions to satellites | 113 |
| Ch. 7 | Remote sensing data interchangeability, preprocessing and processing | 119 |
| 7.2 | The interchangeability of basic remote sensing data types | 119 |
| 7.3 | Stages in the handling and use of remote sensing data | 124 |
| 7.4 | Preprocessing and processing examples | 126 |
| Ch. 8 | Analysis and interpretation of aerial photography | 133 |
| 8.2 | Methods of photo-interpretation | 133 |
| 8.3 | Measurement and plotting techniques: selected aspects of photogrammetry | 138 |
| Ch. 9 | Digital data handling | 147 |
| 9.1 | The need for numerical data manipulation | 147 |
| 9.2 | The quality and quantity of remote sensing data | 150 |
| 9.3 | The analysis and interpretation of selected features | 158 |
| 9.4 | Automatic decision/classification techniques | 161 |
| 9.5 | End products of numerical processing | 165 |
| 9.6 | Systems for digital data analysis and interpretation | 165 |
| 9.7 | Remote sensing and GIS | 168 |
| Pt. 2 | Remote Sensing Applications | |
| Ch. 10 | Weather analysis and forecasting | 175 |
| 10.1 | Remote sensing of the atmosphere | 175 |
| 10.2 | Representative weather satellites | 182 |
| 10.3 | Satellite data applications in applied meteorology | 188 |
| Ch. 11 | Global climatology | 203 |
| 11.1 | Climatology emerges from the shadows | 203 |
| 11.2 | Global climate monitoring: the nature of the problem | 203 |
| 11.3 | The Earth/atmosphere energy and radiation budgets | 204 |
| 11.4 | Global atmospheric moisture distributions | 214 |
| 11.5 | Wind flows and air circulations | 220 |
| 11.6 | The climatology of synoptic weather systems | 222 |
| 11.7 | The climatology of the middle and upper atmosphere | 224 |
| Ch. 12 | Water in the environment | 227 |
| 12.1 | The importance of water | 227 |
| 12.2 | Hydrometeorology | 227 |
| 12.3 | Surface hydrology | 238 |
| 12.4 | Hydrogeology | 243 |
| 12.5 | Oceanography | 244 |
| Ch. 13 | Soils and landforms | 257 |
| 13.1 | The nature of soils | Subjects
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