This book intends to show the reader how remote sensing impacts other areas of science, technology, and human activity, by displaying a selected number of high quality contributions dealing with different remote sensing applications.
Twenty two chapters have been carefully collected and distributed in four areas.
The first part deals with land cover applications, and contains applications in vegetation indices, crop and pest monitoring, rainfall and fire relationship with vegetation, change detection, soil salinization, modeling water and heat regimes, catastrophe assessment and lava flow mapping.
The second part contains contributions on climate and atmosphere, including carbon and water dynamics, ocean evaporation, and atmospheric aerosols and clouds.
The third part presents oceans and cryosphere applications that include aquatic vegetation, oil spill assessment, coral reef habitat mapping, water source predictability from snow maps, cryosphere study, and maritime search and rescue.
Last but not least, the last part presents contributions dealing with human activity, including population estimation, archaeology, urban growth, medicine and healthcare and military applications.
Contents
Section 1 Land Cover
1 Narrowband Vegetation Indices for Estimating Boreal Forest Leaf Area Index
2 Crop Disease and Pest Monitoring by Remote Sensing
3 Seasonal Variability of Vegetation and Its Relationship to Rainfall and Fire in the Brazilian Tropical Savanna
4 Land Cover Change Detection in Southern Brazil Through Orbital Imagery Classification Methods
5 Mapping Soil Salinization of Agricultural Coastal Areas in Southeast Spain
6 Remote Sensing Based Modeling of Water and Heat Regimes in a Vast Agricultural Region
7 High Resolution Remote Sensing Images Based Catastrophe Assessment Method
8 Automatic Mapping of the Lava Flows at Piton de la Fournaise Volcano, by Combining Thermal Data in Near and Visible Infrared
Section 2 Climate and Atmosphere
9 Coupled Terrestrial Carbon and Water Dynamics in Terrestrial Ecosystems: Contributions of Remote Sensing
10 Oceanic Evaporation: Trends and Variability
11 Multi-Wavelength and Multi-Direction Remote Sensing of Atmospheric Aerosols and Clouds
Section 3 Oceans and Cryosphere
12 Remote Sensing of Submerged Aquatic Vegetation
13 Remote Sensing and Environmental Sensitivity for Oil Spill in the Amazon, Brazil
14 Satellite Remote Sensing of Coral Reef Habitats Mapping in Shallow Waters at Banco Chinchorro Reefs, México: A Classification Approach
15 Predictability of Water Sources Using Snow Maps Extracted from the Modis Imagery in Central Alborz, Iran
16 Remote Sensing of Cryosphere
17 Remote Sensing Application in the Maritime Search and Rescue
Section 4 Human Activity Assessment
18 Object-Based Image Analysis ofVHR Satellite Imagery for Population Estimation in Informal Settlement Kibera-Nairobi, Kenya
19 Remote Sensing Applications in Archaeological Research
20 The Mapping of the Urban Growth of Kinshasa (DRC) Through High Resolution Remote Sensing Between 1995 and 2005
21 Remote Sensing for Medical and Health Care Applications
22 Demonstration of Hyperspectral Image Exploitation for Military Applications
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Author(s): Boris Escalante-Ramírez
Publisher: InTeO
Year: 2012
Language: English
Pages: 527
Tags: Науки о Земле;Метеорология и климатология;Физико-химические процессы в атмосфере. Методы измерений;
Cover......Page 1
Remote Sensing - Applications......Page 2
©......Page 3
Contents......Page 5
Preface......Page 9
Section 1 Land Cover......Page 12
1 Narrowband Vegetation Indices for Estimating Boreal Forest Leaf Area Index......Page 14
2 Crop Disease and Pest Monitoring by Remote Sensing......Page 42
3 Seasonal Variability of Vegetation and Its Relationship to Rainfall and Fire in the Brazilian Tropical Savanna......Page 88
4 Land Cover Change Detection in Southern Brazil Through Orbital Imagery Classification Methods......Page 110
5 Mapping Soil Salinization of Agricultural Coastal Areas in Southeast Spain......Page 128
6 Remote Sensing Based Modeling of Water and Heat Regimes in a Vast Agricultural Region......Page 152
7 High Resolution Remote Sensing Images Based Catastrophe Assessment Method......Page 188
8 Automatic Mapping of the Lava Flows at Piton de la Fournaise Volcano, by Combining Thermal Data in Near and Visible Infrared......Page 212
Section 2 Climate and Atmosphere......Page 232
9 Coupled Terrestrial Carbon and Water Dynamics in Terrestrial Ecosystems: Contributions of Remote Sensing......Page 234
10 Oceanic Evaporation: Trends and Variability......Page 272
11 Multi-Wavelength and Multi-Direction Remote Sensing of Atmospheric Aerosols and Clouds......Page 290
Section 3 Oceans and Cryosphere......Page 306
12 Remote Sensing of Submerged Aquatic Vegetation......Page 308
13 Remote Sensing and Environmental Sensitivity for Oil Spill in the Amazon, Brazil......Page 320
14 Satellite Remote Sensing of Coral Reef Habitats Mapping in Shallow Waters at Banco Chinchorro Reefs, México: A Classification Approach......Page 342
15 Predictability of Water Sources Using Snow Maps Extracted from the Modis Imagery in Central Alborz, Iran......Page 366
16 Remote Sensing of Cryosphere......Page 380
17 Remote Sensing Application in the Maritime Search and Rescue......Page 392
Section 4 Human Activity Assessment......Page 416
18 Object-Based Image Analysis of VHR Satellite Imagery for Population Estimation in Informal Settlement Kibera-Nairobi, Kenya......Page 418
19 Remote Sensing Applications in Archaeological Research......Page 446
20 The Mapping of the Urban Growth of Kinshasa (DRC) Through High Resolution Remote Sensing Between 1995 and 2005......Page 474
21 Remote Sensing for Medical and Health Care Applications......Page 490
22 Demonstration of Hyperspectral Image Exploitation for Military Applications......Page 504