Overview
- The most definitive, comprehensive product of the worldwide glacier remote sensing consortium? GLIMS
- Provides up to date satellite imaging with quantitative analysis of state and dynamics
- Summarizes the state of the art in satellite multispectral data
- Written by a team of the world's foremost international experts in satellite image analysis of glaciers
- A timely example of the benefits of satellite remote sensing
- Contains novel satellite image analysis methodologies, with algorithms on a companion DVD
- Companion DVD provides fly-over movies, glacier databases and oversize imagery
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Springer Praxis Books (PRAXIS)
Part of the book sub series: Geophysical Sciences (GEOPHYS)
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Table of contents (34 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
An international team of over 150 experts provide up-to-date satellite imaging and quantitative analysis of the state and dynamics of the glaciers around the world, and they provide an in-depth review of analysis methodologies. Includes an e-published supplement.
Global Land Ice Measurements from Space - Satellite Multispectral Imaging of Glaciers (GLIMS book for short) is the leading state-of-the-art technical and interpretive presentation of satellite image data and analysis of the changing state of the world's glaciers. The book is the most definitive, comprehensive product of a global glacier remote sensing consortium, Global Land Ice Measurements from Space (GLIMS, http://www.glims.org). With 33 chapters and a companion e-supplement, the world's foremost experts in satellite image analysis of glaciers analyze the current state and recent and possible future changes of glaciers across the globe and interpret these findings for policy planners.
Climate change is with us for some time to come, and its impacts are being felt by the world's population. The GLIMS Book, to be released about the same time as the IPCC's 5th Assessment report on global climate warming, buttresses and adds rich details and authority to the global change community's understanding of climate change impacts on the cryosphere. This will be a definitive and technically complete reference for experts and students examining the responses of glaciers to climate change. World experts demonstrate that glaciers are changing in response to the ongoing climatic upheaval in addition to other factors that pertain to the circumstances of individual glaciers. The global mosaic of glacier changes is documented by quantitative analyses and are placed into a perspective of causative factors. Starting with a Foreword, Preface, and Introduction, the GLIMS book gives the rationale for and history of glacier monitoring and satellite data analysis. It includes acomprehensive set of six "how-to" methodology chapters, twenty-five chapters detailing regional glacier state and dynamical changes, and an in-depth summary and interpretation chapter placing the observed glacier changes into a global context of the coupled atmosphere-land-ocean system.
An accompanying e-supplement will include oversize imagery and other other highly visual renderings of scientific data.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Global Land Ice Measurements from Space
Editors: Jeffrey S. Kargel, Gregory J. Leonard, Michael P. Bishop, Andreas Kääb, Bruce H. Raup
Series Title: Springer Praxis Books
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-79818-7
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-79817-0Published: 25 August 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-50130-6Published: 24 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-79818-7Published: 08 July 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: LXXIX, 876
Number of Illustrations: 73 b/w illustrations, 336 illustrations in colour
Topics: Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry, Climatology, Atmospheric Sciences, Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences