Advances in Earth Observation of Global Change

by Emilio Chuvieco

Book Overview

Preface. Contributors. 1. The role of small satellite missions in global change studies; Rainer Sandau and Klaus Briess 2. Spatial pattern analysis of water-driven land cover change in Aridzone, Northwest of China; Qimig Zhou and Bo Sun 3. A spatial logistic regression model for simulating land use patterns: a case study of the Shiraz Metropolitan Area of Iran; Amin Tayyebi et al. 4. Abu Dhabi Island: analysis of development and vegetation change using remote sensing (1972-2000); Abdulhakim M. Abdi and Anand Nandipati 5. Remote sensing of coastal water quality in the Baltic Sea using MERIS; Andreas Neumann, Harald Krawczyk and Stefan Riha 6. Remote sensing for water quality monitoring in Apalachicola Bay, USA; Wenrui Huang, Shuisen Chen and Xiaojun Yang 7. Extracting cryospheric information over lowlands from L-band polarimetric SAR data; Nicolas Long?p? et al 8. Variability of Northern hemisphere spring snowmelt dates using the AVHRR polar pathfinder snow cover during 1982-2004; Hongxu Zhao and Richard Fernandes 9. MODIS snow monitoring over the Tibetan Plateau; Li Xu 10. The global geodetic observing system (GGOS): detecting the fingerprints of global change in geodetic quantities; Hans-Peter Plag et al. 11. Monitoring radial tectonic motions of continental borders around the Atlantic Ocean and regional sea level changes by space geodetic observations; Zhigen Yang and Fengchun Shu 12. GNSS activities for natural disaster monitoring and climate change detection at GFZ - an overview; Junping Chen et al 13. Satellite imagery for landslide mapping in an earthquake-struck area; Xiaojun Yang 14. Relations between human factors and global fire activity; Emilio Chuvieco and Chris Justice 15. The use of remote sensing data and meteorological information for food security monitoring, examples in East Africa; Michel Massart et al16. Application of an early warning system for floods; Adriana Albanese et al 17. L-band and C-band combined interferometric monitoring of the Wenchuan Earthquake; Kui Zhang et al 18. Uncovering the space-time patterns of change with the use of change analyst - case study of Hong Kong; Bo Huang and Hua-Leung Sin 19. Change detection of sea ice distribution in SAR imagery using semi-variogram of intrinsic regionalization model; Yu Li and Jonathan Li Index.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9400790317
• ISBN13: 9789400790315
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 283 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"