Mediterranean Land-surface Processes Assessed from Space

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XXVII

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2. Introduction

   Pages 1-50

3. Processing and Archiving of Satellite and Ancillary Data

   Pages 51-135

4. Radiative Processes of the Surface- Atmosphere System

   Pages 137-189

5. Primary Level Products

   Pages 191-247

6. Higher Level Variables and Their Validation

   Pages 249-368

7. From Research to Application

   Pages 369-562

8. Back Matter

   Pages 563-760

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1. 1 Space View and Ground Observations 1 1. 2 Mediterranean Climatic Environment 2 1. 3 Processes at Surfaces 10 1. 3. 1 Deforestation and Land-use Changes 10 1. 3. 2 Water Related Problems 16 1. 3. 3 Fire, Grazing, and Land Degradation 19 1. 3. 4 Drought, Floods, Frost, and Desertification 21 1. 3. 5 Coupling Between Surface and Atmosphere: The Role of the Atmospheric Boundary Layer 25 1. 4 Role and Capabilities of Measurements Made From Space 30 1. 4. 1 Research Programmes 30 1. 4. 2 Expected Information 32 1. 4. 3 Research Strategy 33 1. 4. 4 Observation of Changes in Heterogeneous Landscapes: Spatial and Temporal Scales 35 1. 4. 5 Land-surface Change Indicators Observable from Space 36 Spectral Characteristics of Vegetation and Soils (36); Responses of Remote Sensing Signals to Changes of Land-surface Properties (40) 1. 5 About this Book 48 Chapter 2 Processing and Archiving of Satellite and Ancillary Data 51 2. 1 Introduction 51 2. 2 The Remote Sensing Data Base 55 2. 2. 1 Satellite Instruments 55 The NOAA Observing System (55); Meteosat (57); Nimbus-7 (59); Landsat (59); SPOT (61); DMSP (62); ERS-1 and ERS-2 (62); TRMM (63); Terra (64); Envisat (65); Aqua (66) 2. 2. 2 Aircraft Instruments 66 The Use of Aircraft for Land-surface Process Studies (66); AVIRIS (67); TMS (68); AIRSAR (68); DIAL (69) 2. 3 Reception, Acquisition and Availability of Satellite Data 70 2. 3.

• Albedo
• Change detection
• Climate Change
• Desertification
• Ecology
• Geography
• Satellite Data
• Scale
• moisture
• remote sensing
• satellite
• temperature
• climate change impacts
• ecotoxicology

• Mànchen, Germany

  Hans-Jürgen Bolle

• Freie Universitüt Berlin lnstitut fàr Meteorologie, Berlin, Germany

  Matthias Eckardt, Dirk Koslowsky

• CNR - Istituto di Biometeorologia (IBIMET), Firenze, Italy

  Fabio Maselli

• Facultat de Fisica Dpt. de Tcrmodinàmica, Universitat de Valencia, Valencia, Spain

  Joaquín Meliá Miralles

• CNR - Istituto Per I Sistemi Agricoli E Forestali, S. Sebastiano al Vesuvio (NA), Italy

  Massimo Menenti

• Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe lnstitut für Meteorologie und Klimaforsehung, Karlsmhe, Germany

  Folke-Sören Olesen

• Adriaan van Ostadelaan 5, EL Oegstgeest, The Netherlands

  Ljiljana Petkov

• Paris, France

  Ichtiaque Rasool

• AT Zeist, The Netherlands

  Adriaan A. Griend

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