Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere from Space
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2017
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1st ed. 2017
Springer Berlin (Verlag)
9783642104114 (ISBN)
Springer Berlin (Verlag)
9783642104114 (ISBN)
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This book examines recent results and trends in optical remote sensing from satellites. It clearly demonstrates the important applications of optical remote sensing by satellite in a range of important global environments.
In Optical Remote Sensing From Satellites the authors set the scene for an understanding of recent advances in optical remote sensing of the earth and the importance of satellite techniques in this regard. As presently structured, the book consists of ten chapters. After a brief Preface and Introduction to satellite remote sensing, the authors describe satellite instrumentation including detectors and imaging systems, image processing, multispectral and hyperspectral instruments in chapter 3.
Chapter 4 looks at electromagnetic radiation discussing topics such as Maxwell theory, the Stokes vector and the theoretical background to light reflection, transmission and scattering. It provides the physical basis for optical remote sensing from space. Chapter 5 describes the various sources of radiation such as blackbody, solar and terrestrial radiation and artificial sources such as lasers. Chapter 6 reviews light propagation in the atmosphere which is an important topic since satellite signals are influenced not only by atmospheric scattering but also by reflectance from natural surfaces such as oceans, soil, vegetation, forest, snow and ice, and these topics are covered in chapter 7. Chapter 8 considers forward models and inverse problems (e.g. linearization techniques, minimization procedures and the adjoint radiative transfer equation).
Chapter 9 comprises a description of the application of techniques outlined in previous chapters for the solution of a number of practical problems such as the determination of aerosol, trace gas, and cloud properties using spectral top-of-atmosphere reflectances as detected by satellites. The final chapter 10 examines optical remote sensing techniques as applied to the monitoring of hurricanes, floods, desertification, volcanic eruptions, and climate change. Our planet faces many global environmental problems (i.e. warming and gradual disappearance of ice in Arctic). The only possible way to monitor all of these changes is through remote sensing from satellites. The objective of this book is to describe recent advances in satellite instrumentation and in the techniques for optical remote sensing of atmosphere, land and ocean, with a special focus on atmospheric remote sensing in the spectral range 350-2400nm. Thermal infrared remote sensing will be also be briefly touched upon in this book. The main focus will be on the physical foundations of remote sensing and the description of recent applications of optical remote sensing data in areas such as the monitoring of natural disasters (e.g. hurricanes and floods), desertification and environmental change, the monitoring of forest fires, atmospheric pollution and volcanic eruptions, and scrutiny of important events relating to global climate change such as the melting of ice sheets.
The material for this book has been developed by the two authors while teaching courses and performing frontline research in optics, remote sensing and atmospheric science at various universities in the USA and Canada. Alex Kokhanovsky is the author of several previous Praxis books and is editor of the Light Scattering Reviews volumes.
In Optical Remote Sensing From Satellites the authors set the scene for an understanding of recent advances in optical remote sensing of the earth and the importance of satellite techniques in this regard. As presently structured, the book consists of ten chapters. After a brief Preface and Introduction to satellite remote sensing, the authors describe satellite instrumentation including detectors and imaging systems, image processing, multispectral and hyperspectral instruments in chapter 3.
Chapter 4 looks at electromagnetic radiation discussing topics such as Maxwell theory, the Stokes vector and the theoretical background to light reflection, transmission and scattering. It provides the physical basis for optical remote sensing from space. Chapter 5 describes the various sources of radiation such as blackbody, solar and terrestrial radiation and artificial sources such as lasers. Chapter 6 reviews light propagation in the atmosphere which is an important topic since satellite signals are influenced not only by atmospheric scattering but also by reflectance from natural surfaces such as oceans, soil, vegetation, forest, snow and ice, and these topics are covered in chapter 7. Chapter 8 considers forward models and inverse problems (e.g. linearization techniques, minimization procedures and the adjoint radiative transfer equation).
Chapter 9 comprises a description of the application of techniques outlined in previous chapters for the solution of a number of practical problems such as the determination of aerosol, trace gas, and cloud properties using spectral top-of-atmosphere reflectances as detected by satellites. The final chapter 10 examines optical remote sensing techniques as applied to the monitoring of hurricanes, floods, desertification, volcanic eruptions, and climate change. Our planet faces many global environmental problems (i.e. warming and gradual disappearance of ice in Arctic). The only possible way to monitor all of these changes is through remote sensing from satellites. The objective of this book is to describe recent advances in satellite instrumentation and in the techniques for optical remote sensing of atmosphere, land and ocean, with a special focus on atmospheric remote sensing in the spectral range 350-2400nm. Thermal infrared remote sensing will be also be briefly touched upon in this book. The main focus will be on the physical foundations of remote sensing and the description of recent applications of optical remote sensing data in areas such as the monitoring of natural disasters (e.g. hurricanes and floods), desertification and environmental change, the monitoring of forest fires, atmospheric pollution and volcanic eruptions, and scrutiny of important events relating to global climate change such as the melting of ice sheets.
The material for this book has been developed by the two authors while teaching courses and performing frontline research in optics, remote sensing and atmospheric science at various universities in the USA and Canada. Alex Kokhanovsky is the author of several previous Praxis books and is editor of the Light Scattering Reviews volumes.
Preface, Introduction to remote sensing, 1. Satellite instruments, 2. Electromagnetic radiation, 3.Sources of radiation, 4. Light propagation in atmosphere, 5. Light reflection from natural surfaces, 6.Forward models and inverse problems, 7,Remote sensing techniques, 8. Applications.
| Reihe/Serie | Environmental Sciences | Springer Praxis Books |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | XXVII, 549 p. 130 illus., 20 illus. in color. |
| Verlagsort | Berlin |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 168 x 240 mm |
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie | |
| Schlagworte | Atmosphere • Optics • Remote Sensing • Satellites |
| ISBN-13 | 9783642104114 / 9783642104114 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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