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Advances in Earth Observation of Global Change

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  • © 2010

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Editors:
  1. Emilio Chuvieco

    1. , Department of Geography, Universidad Alcala de Henares, Alcala de Henares, Spain

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  2. Jonathan Li

    1. , Department of Geography and Environmenta, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada

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  3. Xiaojun Yang

    1. , Dept. Geography, Florida State University, Tallahassee, USA

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  • Few books cover the contributions of Remote Sensing to Global Change issues
  • Leading-edge material will be used, since it is the output of a specialized conference
  • Many new imaging satellites have been launched since 2006, research findings on the use of new EO data for global change studies will be included in the new book

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Global Change studies are increasingly being considered a vital source of information to understand the Earth Environment, in particular in the framework of human-induced climate change and land use transformation. Satellite Earth Observing systems provide a unique tool to monitor those changes. While the range of applications and innovative techniques is constantly increasing, this book provides a summary of key case studies where satellite data offer critical information to understand the causes and effects of those environmental changes, minimizing their negative impacts. This book will be of interest to researchers and practitioners in the field of remote sensing, geographical information, meteorology and environmental sciences. Also scientists and graduate up to post-graduate level students in environmental science will find valuable information in this book.

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. The Role of Small Satellite Missions in Global Change Studies

    • Rainer Sandau, Klaus Briess
    Pages 1-15

  3. Spatial Pattern Analysis of Water-Driven Land Cover Change in Aridzone, Northwest of China

    • Qiming Zhou, Bo Sun
    Pages 17-26

  4. A Spatial Logistic Regression Model for Simulating Land Use Patterns: A Case Study of the Shiraz Metropolitan Area of Iran

    • Amin Tayyebi, Mahmoud Reza Delavar, Mohammad Javad Yazdanpanah, Bryan Christopher Pijanowski, Sara Saeedi, Amir Hossein Tayyebi
    Pages 27-42

  5. Abu Dhabi Island: Analysis of Development and Vegetation Change Using Remote Sensing (1972–2000)

    • Abdulhakim M. Abdi, Anand Nandipati
    Pages 43-53

  6. Remote Sensing of Coastal Water Quality in the Baltic Sea Using MERIS

    • Andreas Neumann, Harald Krawczyk, Stefan Riha
    Pages 55-67

  7. Remote Sensing for Water Quality Monitoring in Apalachicola Bay, USA

    • Wenrui Huang, Shuisen Chen, Xiaojun Yang
    Pages 69-78

  8. Extracting Cryospheric Information over Lowlands from L-Band Polarimetric SAR Data

    • Nicolas Longépé, Masanobu Shimada, Sophie Allain, Eric Pottier
    Pages 79-95

  9. Variability of Northern Hemisphere Spring Snowmelt Dates Using the AVHRR Polar Pathfinder Snow Cover During 1982–2004

    • Hongxu Zhao, Richard Fernandes
    Pages 97-110

  10. MODIS Snow Monitoring Over the Tibetan Plateau

    • Li Xu
    Pages 111-124

  11. The Global Geodetic Observing System (GGOS): Detecting the Fingerprints of Global Change in Geodetic Quantities

    • Hans -Peter Plag, Chris Rizos, Markus Rothacher, Ruth Neilan
    Pages 125-143

  12. Monitoring Radial Tectonic Motions of Continental Borders Around the Atlantic Ocean and Regional Sea Level Changes by Space Geodetic Observations

    • Zhigen Yang, Fengchun Shu
    Pages 145-157

  13. GNSS Activities for Natural Disaster Monitoring and Climate Change Detection at GFZ – An Overview

    • Junping Chen, Michael Bender, Geory Beyerle, Galina Dick, Carsten Falck, Maorong Ge et al.
    Pages 159-171

  14. Satellite Imagery for Landslide Mapping in an Earthquake-Struck Area

    • Xiaojun Yang
    Pages 173-186

  15. Relations Between Human Factors and Global Fire Activity

    • Emilio Chuvieco, Chris Justice
    Pages 187-199

  16. The Use of Remote Sensing Data and Meteorological Information for Food Security Monitoring, Examples in East Africa

    • Michel Massart, Felix Rembold, Oscar Rojas, Olivier Leo
    Pages 201-216

  17. Application of an Early Warning System for Floods

    • Adriana Albanese, Piero Boccardo, Fabio Giorgi, Nishshanka Prasanna Premachandra, Olivier Terzo, Rossella Vigna
    Pages 217-237

  18. L-Band and C-Band Combined Interferometric Monitoring of the Wenchuan Earthquake

    • Kui Zhang, Alex Hay-Man Ng, Linlin Ge, Yusen Dong, Chris Rizos
    Pages 239-253

  19. Uncovering the Space–Time Patterns of Change with the Use of Change Analyst – Case Study of Hong Kong

    • Bo Huang, Hua-Leung Sin
    Pages 255-268

  20. Change Detection of Sea Ice Distribution in SAR Imagery Using Semi-variogram of Intrinsic Regionalization Model

    • Yu Li, Jonathan Li
    Pages 269-280
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Reviews

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“This collection of conference papers surveys the rapidly expanding area of research on observing global change in the Earth system. Remote-sensing applications to land use, coastal and marine ecosystems, snow and ice, and natural hazards, as well as geodetic and geospatial data processing techniques employed in global change research, are surveyed in 19 chapters by an international group of more than 60 authors. … recommend this book to researchers in remote sensing and global change studies. There is valuable, reasonably current research presented here.” (John A. Knox, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, July, 2012)

Editors and Affiliations

  • , Department of Geography, Universidad Alcala de Henares, Alcala de Henares, Spain

    Emilio Chuvieco

  • , Department of Geography and Environmenta, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada

    Jonathan Li

  • , Dept. Geography, Florida State University, Tallahassee, USA

    Xiaojun Yang

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