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Land surface remote sensing : environment and risks /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Elsevier,
2016.
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| Colección: | Remote sensing observations of continental surfaces set.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover ; Land Surface Remote Sensing: Environment and Risks ; Copyright ; Contents; Foreword; Acronyms; Introduction; Chapter 1. Drylands and Desertification; 1.1. Drylands; 1.2. Dryland vegetation observed by satellite; 1.3. Soils and surface materials: the dominant components of drylands; 1.4. Conclusions and outlook; 1.5. Key points; 1.6. Bibliography; Chapter 2. Remote Sensing and Measuring Deforestation; 2.1. Introduction: forests, deforestation and forest degradation; 2.2. Which images should be used for measuring deforestation? Limits and advantages.
- 2.3. Methods for monitoring deforestation2.4. Programs for estimating deforestation on a global scale; 2.5. Programs evaluating deforestation and degradation on a regional scale: some case studies; 2.6. Outlook; 2.7. Key points; 2.8. Bibliography; Chapter 3. Remote Sensing of Wildfires; 3.1. Introduction; 3.2. Fuel moisture estimation; 3.3. Fire detection; 3.4. Burnt area mapping; 3.5. Perspectives; 3.6. Key points; 3.7. Bibliography; Chapter 4. Characterization of Industrial Plumes; 4.1. Introduction; 4.2. Principal characteristics of anthropogenic plumes; 4.3. Optical properties of plumes.
- 4.4. Characterization of aerosol plumes using remote sensing 4.5. Characterization of gas plume properties; 4.6. Conclusions and outlook; 4.7. Key points; 4.8. Bibliography; Chapter 5. Monitoring of Earth Surface Motion and Geomorphologic Processes by Optical Image Correlation; 5.1. Introduction; 5.2. Sources of image data; 5.3. Preprocessing; 5.4. Principles of optical image correlation; 5.5. Applications; 5.6. Current limitations and perspectives; 5.7. Conclusions; 5.8. Key points; 5.9. Acknowledgments; 5.10. Bibliography.
- Chapter 6. Application of Optical Remote Sensing for Monitoring Environmental Impacts of Mining: From Exploitation to Postmining6.1. The environmental and societal stakes of mining; 6.2. The role of Earth Observation; 6.3. Application examples; 6.4. Multisensor integrated approaches; 6.5. Exploitation of an airborne LiDAR DTM ; 6.6. Conclusions and perspectives; 6.7. Key points; 6.8. Acknowledgments; 6.9. Bibliography; Chapter 7. The Contribution of SAR Data to Volcanology and Subsidence Studies; 7.1. Introduction; 7.2. Principles of using satellite SAR data to measure ground displacement.
- 7.3. The contribution of InSAR to the understanding and monitoring of volcanoes7.4. Contribution of InSAR to the characterization of anthropogenic subsidence; 7.5. Outlook; 7.6. Appendix 1; 7.7. Appendix 2; 7.8. Key points; 7.9. Bibliography; Chapter 8. Applications of Remote Sensing to Locust Management; 8.1. Introduction; 8.2. Potential of remote sensing in locust monitoring; 8.3. Case study 1: using SPOT satellite images to evaluate the impact of habitat fragmentation on population dynamics of the red locust Nomadacris septemfasciata in the Sofia basin in Madagascar.