National Academies Press, 2015. — 247 p. Active remote sensing is the principal tool used to study and to predict short- and long-term changes in the environment of Earth - the atmosphere, the oceans and the land surfaces - as well as the near space environment of Earth. All of these measurements are essential to understanding terrestrial weather, climate change, space weather...
CRC Press, 2013. — 346 p. The book covers the very recent developments undertaken for monitoring forest areas from global to national levels using Earth observation satellite data. It describes operational tools and systems for monitoring forest ecosystems, discussing why and how researchers currently use remotely sensed data to study forest cover and loss over large areas. The...
Basel: MDPI, 2022. — 316 p. Assessing Agricultural Vulnerability to Drought in a Heterogeneous Environment: A Remote Sensing-Based Approach How Does Peri-Urbanization Trigger Climate Change Vulnerabilities? An Investigation of the Dhaka Megacity in Bangladesh Improving Spatial Agreement in Machine Learning-Based Landslide Susceptibility Mapping Evaluating the Effects of Digital...
InTech, 2011. — 272 p. Generally, the term biomass is used for all materials originating from photosynthesis. However, biomass can equally apply to animals. Conservation and management of biomass is very important. There are various ways and methods for biomass evaluation. One of these methods is remote sensing. Remote sensing provides information about biomass, but also about...
Springer, 2018. — 462 p. This book is the second edition of Environmental Monitoring using GNSS and highlights the latest developments in global navigation satellite systems (GNSS). It features a completely new title and additional chapters that present emerging challenges to environmental monitoring—“climate variability/change and food insecurity.” Since the publication of the...
Springer, 2012. — 387 p. Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) are revolutionizing the world in a way their original developers never envisaged. From being military “war” tools, GNSS satellites are rapidly becoming “peace” tools that play a potentially critical role in enabling changing environmental phenomenon that do not permit direct measurements to be remotely observed...
CRC Press, 2004. — 248 p. Active (imaging radar) and passive (radiometer) microwave systems are increasingly used for Arctic ecological research. Unfortunately, until now ecologists interested in remote sensing often lacked access to the full suite of physical and analytical techniques of microwave systems, data processing, and ecological applications because a suitable...
Springer, 2019. — 123 p. How is the vegetation distribution influencing the erosion and surface formation in the different eco zones of Chile? To answer this question, it is mandatory to possess fundamental knowledge about plant species habitats, occurrence and their dynamics. In his study Christian Bödinger utilizes satellite imagery in combination with machine learning to...
Springer, 2000. — 243 p. A comprehensive source book for anybody interested in the potential of remote sensing and GIS technology for the Eastern Europe countries in transition, and less developed countries in general. Leading experts from Europe, Canada and the USA cover a wide variety of applications, from the provision of satellite data to land, water and atmosphere planning...
CRC Press. Taylor & Francis Group, 2012. — 508 p. In the last few decades, rapid urbanization and industrialization have altered the priority of environmental protection and restoration of air, soil, and water quality many times. Yet it is recognized that the sustainable management of human society is necessary at all phases of impact from the interactions among energy,...
CRC Press, 2018. — 529 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4987-7433-8. Combining versatile data sets from multiple satellite sensors with advanced thematic information retrieval is a powerful way for studying complex earth systems. The book Multisensor Data Fusion and Machine Learning for Environmental Remote Sensing offers complete understanding of the basic scientific principles needed to...
Springer Science, 2008. — 227 p. The earth environment has always been affected by change, since all forces interacting to shape world landscapes are intrinsically dynamic. However, the pace of change varies widely between processes: from slow moving plate tectonics and erosion, to fast changing wind or temperature conditions. Considering phenomenon at the human time scale,...
Springer, 2009. — 273 p. — ISBN: 978-3-642-01753-7 Wildland fires are becoming one of the most critical environmental factors affecting a wide range of ecosystems worldwide. In Mediterranean ecosystems (including also South-Africa, California, parts of Chile and Australia), wildland fires are recurrent phenomena every summer, following the seasonal drought. As a result of...
Springer, 1999. — 222 p. — ISBN: 978-3-642-64284-5. Wildland fires are considered a major environmental problem in many European Union Member States as well as in other parts of the world. Findings from integrated and multidisciplinary projects have increased our understanding of the causes and socio-economic aspects of fire, of the natural role of fires in the maintenance and...
CRC Press, 2021. — 380 p. - (SAR Remote Sensing). — ISBN 978-0-367-74266-9. Spatial Analysis for Radar Remote Sensing of Tropical Forests is based on the authors’ extensive involvement in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) mapping projects, targeting the health of an earth ecosystem with great relevance for climate change studies: the tropical forests. The subject is developed from...
CRC Press, 2019. — 430 p. — ISBN: 9781498749602. The constant growth of the world’s population and the decline of the availability of land and soil resources are global concerns for food security. Other concerns are the decrease in productivity and delivery of essential ecosystems services because of the decline of soil quality and health by a range of degradation processes....
Springer, 2019. — 234 p. This book introduces methods of re-processing images to extract numerical information that can be used to quantify the observables in environmental modelling. Experiments or procedures that yield large images can be statistically or parametrically examined. Through the use of open source libraries, the book shows how ‘big data’ in the form of images or...
InTech, 2012. — 334 p. Measurements of ecosystem biomass have far ranging societal, policy and management implications. The anticipated economic and societal burden that will result from unmitigated rises in CO2 emissions and losses in ecosystem services alone are estimated to be in the trillion of dollars by mid-century (Stern Report, 2008). Ongoing international carbon...
McGraw-Hill, 2010. — 373 p. This state-of-the-art volume provides fundamental information on and practical applications of remote sensing technologies in wildlife management, habitat studies, and biodiversity assessment and monitoring. The book reviews image analysis, interpretation techniques, and key geospatial tools, including field-based, aerial, and satellite remote sensing,...
CRC Press, 2023. — 464 p. — ISBN 978-1-032-40402-8. This book presents a comprehensive coverage of remote sensing technology used to gather information on 12 types of natural hazards in the terrestrial sphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere. It clarifies in detail how to yield spatial and quantitative data on a natural hazard, including its spatial distribution,...
CRC Press, 2020. — 115 p. — ISBN: 9780367205270. This book provides a step-by-step guide on how to use various publicly available remotely sensed time series data sources for environmental monitoring and assessment. Readers will learn how to extract valuable information on global changes from a 20-year collection of ready-to-use remotely sensed data through the free open...
Springer. 2014. - 236 p. The purpose of this edited volume is to highlight selected Biophysical Applications of Satellite Remote Sensing in terrestrial and oceanic ecosystems for the benefit of scientists, educators, and students. While the applications presented in this volume are distinct because they focus on particular biophysical characteristics of terrestrial and oceanic...
Oxford University Press, 2010. — 494 p. Remote sensing has revolutionized our understanding of the Earth as an integrated system, giving us a growing capability to forecast changes in weather and climate and allowing observations of changes in land cover and land use. In general, biologists and ecologists have lagged behind their physical science counterparts in harnessing...
В сборнике: Proceedings, 31st International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment, ISRSE 2005: Global Monitoring for Sustainability and Security. ISSN, St.Petesburg, Russia, June 20-24, 2005, 431 pages В этой статье рассматриваются возможности использования пространственно-временных взаимосвязей референтных состояний деградации экосистемы (на примере леса) с изменчивостью...
Pearson, 2014. — 619 p. This popular book introduces the fundamentals of remote sensing from an earth resource (versus engineering) perspective. The author emphasizes the use of remote sensing data for useful spatial biophysical or socio-economic information that can be used to make decisions. Provides two new chapters on LIDAR Remote Sensing and In situ Spectral Reflectance...
Сборник статей. — Базель: MDPI, 2019. — 200 с. На холодные регионы, характеризующиеся наличием вечной мерзлоты и обширным снежным и ледяным покровом, существенное влияние оказывает изменение климата. Большое значение имеет способность отслеживать резкие и долгосрочные изменения в ледяных, снежных, гидрологических и наземных экосистемах, которые происходят в этих регионах....
Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2008. — 350 p. Our main motivation for this book is to illustrate the potential for hyperspectral remote sensing to provide tools and information to infer and assess ecosystem characteristics at various spatial and temporal scales in the tropics and subtropics. The greater sensitivity and finer spectral resolution provided by these data offer...
Springer, 1997. — 291 p. Proceedings of Concerted Action COMPARES (Connectionist Methods for Pre-Processing and Analysis of Remote Sensing Data). Since 1994 the European Commission has been supporting activities under the Environment and Climate programme of research and technological de velopment, with the aim of developing cost-effective applications of satellite Earth...
Cambridge University Press, 2018. — 355 p. — ISBN: 978-1-316-51386-6. Satellite remote sensing presents an amazing opportunity to inform biodiversity conservation by inexpensively gathering repeated monitoring information for vast areas of the Earth. However, these observations first need processing and interpretation if they are to inform conservation action. Through a series...
Springer, 2012. — 349 p. Remote sensing has witnessed a renaissance as new sensor systems, data collection capabilities and image processing methodologies have expanded the technological capabilities of this science into new and important applications areas. Perhaps nowhere has this trend been more evident than in the study of earth environments. Within this broad application...
Springer, 2015. — 318 p. Developing environmental sensing and monitoring technologies become essential especially for industries that may cause severe contamination. Intelligent environmental sensing uses novel sensor techniques, intelligent signal and data processing algorithms, and wireless sensor networks to enhance environmental sensing and monitoring. It finds applications...
CRC Press, 2018. — 286 p. The book provides important new outcomes from research and development on the integration of remote sensing, geographic information systems, and landscape ecology metrics for modeling, monitoring, and assessment of ecosystems at a variety of scales. The long-term value of such research and development of applications has been incompletely realized;...
ITexLi (ExLi4EvA), 2016. – 405 p. – ISBN: 9535124447; 9535124439 This book contains high quality and compressive work on both microwave and optical remote sensing applications, and the innovation in space technologies creates a new trend for the Earth observation and monitoring from space. The book is divided into five sections: - remote sensing for biomass estimation, - remote...
Springer, 2007. — 357 p. Coastal waters are important ecological systems and vital assets for many nations. Coastal waters are also complex, dynamic environments where a vast array of coupled biological, chemical, geological, and physical processes occurs over multiple time and space scales. The optical environment of coastal waters is particularly complex. There is...
Springer Science+Business Media, 2001. — 332 p. — ISBN 978-1-4613-5596-0. In recent years, the conservation of tropical forests has received worldwide publicity whereas effective forest management, particularly for timber extraction, has attracted little attention and gained some notoriety. The overall aim of the present paper was to examine how environmental micro-variation in...
Springer, 1990. — 322 p. — (Ecological Studies, Vol. 79). — ISBN 978-1-4612-7958-7. At present there is enormous concern about the changes that are occurring on the surface of the earth and in the earth's atmosphere, primarily as a result of human activities. These changes, particularly in the atmosphere, have the potential for altering the earth's habitability. International...
Springer. 2002. - 319 p. This book contains contributed articles following the Remote Sensing 2000 conference held in Corpus Christi, Texas during October 22-25, 2000. The conference was funded by the Soil Science Society of America (SSSA), Bouyoucos Conferences. David Kral at SSSA played an essential role in sponsoring the Remote Sensing 2000 conference. The Bouyoucos...
Springer, 1991. — 570 p. The book deals with the interaction of electromagnetic radiation with vegetation canopies. The approach to the various aspects is mainly theoretical and consequently the subject is being treated as a special branch of mathematical physics. A major emphasis is on the development of theoretical methods for determining the reflection function of vegetation...
Springer, 2019. — 599 p. Himalaya, one of the global biodiversity hotspots, is the abode of a variety of flora and fauna. The Himalayan ecosystems have immense ecological, socioeconomic, and aesthetic significance as they provide a wide range of ecosystem services. The northwest Himalaya (NWH), covering three states of India viz., Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, and Jammu and...
Report of a Workshop. — National Academies Press, 2014. — 84 p. Permafrost is a thermal condition -- its formation, persistence and disappearance are highly dependent on climate. General circulation models predict that, for a doubling of atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide, mean annual air temperatures may rise up to several degrees over much of the Arctic. In the...
Springer, 2013. — 516 p. Modern Earth System Monitoring represents a fundamental change in the way scientists study the Earth System. In Oceanography, for the past two centuries, ships have provided the platforms for observing. Expeditions on the continents and Earth’s poles are land-based analogues. Fundamental understanding of current systems, climate, natural hazards, and...
Springer, 2017. — 244 p. This book provides results of spatial and temporal distributions of water quality parameters and marine primary production and its relationship with the driving atmospheric, ocean circulation and hydrobiological mechanisms established through a synergistic use of multi-spectral region spaceborne data and results of numerical model simulations of marine...
Nuova grafica Fiorentina, May 2008. — 232 p. Results from BEACHMED-e/OpTIMAL Project. Managing Mediterranean beaches: The need for quality and standardised data in beach monitoring at different scales. Beach variability and shoreline evolution monitoring. Shoreline monitoring: review and recommendations. Beach evolution monitoring: Surface variation analysis vs transept based...
Sussex: Wiley, 2011. — 757 p. This book is intended to provide the reader with a broad grounding in the science of Earth observation (EO) of our changing planet. It contains a comprehensive sequenced discussion covering the significant themes of global change, their causes and how they can be monitored through time. In doing so, it represents a good source of basic information...
Springer, 2013. — 371 p. Climate and other environmental changes are drawing unprecedented concern and attention from national governments, international organizations and local communities. Global warming has left noticeable impacts on the environment and the ecosystems it supports (including humans), and has important implications for sustainable economic and social...
Springer, 2006. — 329 p. The aquatic coastal zone is one of the most challenging targets for environmental remote sensing. Properties such as bottom reflectance, spectrally diverse suspended sediments and phytoplankton communities, diverse benthic communities, and transient events that affect surface reflectance (coastal blooms, runoff, etc.) all combine to produce an optical...
Springer-Verlag, 1976. — 382 p. — (Ecological Studies, Vol. 18). — ISBN 978-3-642-66238-6. The public's serious concern about the uncertainties and dangers of the conse quences of human activities on environmental quality demands policies to control the situation and to prevent its deterioration. But far-reaching decisions on the environmental policy are impaired or even made...
CRC Press, 2010. — 460 p. As coastal environments around the world face unprecedented natural and anthropogenic threats, advancements in the technologies that support geospatial data acquisition, imaging, and computing have profoundly enhanced monitoring capabilities in coastal studies. Providing systematic treatment of the key developments, Remote Sensing of Coastal...
CRC Press, 2012. — 613 p. National parks, wildlife refuges and sanctuaries, natural reserves, conservation areas, frontier lands, and marine-protected areas are increasingly recognized as essential providers of ecosystem services and biological resources. As debates about climate change and sustainability intensify, protected areas become more important as indicators of...
CRC Press, 2011. — 600 p. Generating a satisfactory classification image from remote sensing data is not a straightforward task. Many factors contribute to this difficulty including the characteristics of a study area, availability of suitable remote sensing data, ancillary and ground reference data, proper use of variables and classification algorithms, and the analyst’s...
CRC Press, 2017. — 384 p. Driven by the societal needs and improvement in sensor technology and image processing techniques, remote sensing has become an essential geospatial tool for understanding the Earth and managing Human-Earth interactions. The book introduces the current state of the art remote sensing knowledge integral for monitoring the world’s natural resources and...
Springer, 2003. — 534 p. — ISBN 978-1-4613-5014-9. This book provides a series of case studies that exempliry the ways in which remotely sensed data are used in the field, in the decision-making process, and in the scientific study of forests. In selecting this material we have attempted to balance the presentation of results from different types of forests, the...
Berlin: Springer, 2009. — 560 p. This book focuses on the development of remote sensing and related geospatial technologies for monitoring, synthesis and modeling in the coastal environment. The book is divided into three major parts. The first part examines several conceptual and technical issues of applying remote sensing and geospatial technologies in the coastal...
Springer, 2015. — 123 p. This report examines the scientific basis for the use of remotely sensed data, particularly Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), primarily for the assessment of land degradation at different scales and for a range of applications, including resilience of agro-ecosystems. Evidence is drawn from a wide range of investigations, primarily from the...
Навчальний посібник. — Херсон: Олді+, 2019. — 298 с. Навчальний посібник – видання з інноваційних технологій моніторингу довкілля методами геоінженерних наук. Розглянуті методи наземних (аероекологічного, супутникового), дистанційного (сенсорного) і тактильного моніторингів довкілля. Пріоритетними визначені теми, що висвітлюють роботу інструментарію зйомок місцевості за...
Учебное пособие. — СПб.: ЛЭТИ, 2015. — 48 с. Рассмотрены задачи изучения Земли как целостной природной системы на основе широкого применения космических методов и аппаратуры дистанционного зондирования. Показано, что глобальный экологический мониторинг требует создания системы наблюдений с использованием как обычных, так и спутниковых средств. Отмечена особая роль косвенных...
М.: Наука, 1984. — 320 с. В книге обобщены результаты исследований аэрокосмической индикации растительности, почв и животного мира, дистанционных изменений основных параметров экосистем: фитомассы и покрытия растительности, влажности и содержания гумуса почвы. Дана теория индикации: методы эталонирования, экстраполяции и оценки индикаторов. По аэрокосмическим снимкам...
М.: Наука, 1984. — 320 с. В книге обобщены результаты исследований аэрокосмической индикации растительности, почв и животного мира, дистанционных изменений основных параметров экосистем: фитомассы и покрытия растительности, влажности и содержания гумуса почвы. Дана теория индикации: методы эталонирования, экстраполяции и оценки индикаторов. По аэрокосмическим снимкам...
Монография. — Новосибирск: СГГА, 2007. — 380 с. Книга посвящена первым результатам применения космических снимков, полученных в 1970-80-х гг. с искусственных спутников Земли, для исследования природных ресурсов. Работы выполнялись по программе «Сибирь» подразделениями Научно-координационного совета по проблеме «Аэрокосмические исследования природных ресурсов Сибири» в Научных...
Минск: Институт геологических наук АН Беларуси, 1996. — 135 с. В книге освещены перспективы экологического мониторинга на основе средств дистанционного зондирования, спутниковых систем глобального позиционирования (GPS), геодезических приборов, цифровых и стереофотограмметрических комплексов, наземных автоматизированных лабораторий. Показана возможность применения современных...
Учебное пособие для студентов вузов. – М.: Изд. МИИГАиК. 2008. — 145 с. Изложены методы организации и технического обеспечения информационно-аналитического мониторинга природной среды для различных направлений хозяйственной деятельности. Пособие подготовлено в соответствии с программой курса «Аэрокосмические методы съемок» и «Техника и технология дистанционного зондирования...
Пушкино : ВНИИЛМ, 2024. — 32 с. Методические рекомендации по оценке среды обитания краснокнижных видов животных с использованием данных оптической спутниковой съемки на примере манула и снежного барса на территории Саяно-Шушенского заповедника (Методические рекомендации) разработаны в целях методического обеспечения дешифрирования спутниковых данных для оценки среды обитания...
Конспект лекций. — Красноярск: СФУ, 2007. — 118 с. Введение. Понятие биосферы. Введение. Дистанционное зондирование. Физические основы дистанционного зондирования (ДЗ). Приборы для дистанционных исследований. Спектрорадиометрическая съемка. Основы микроволнового зондирования. Применение микроволновой съемки. Биофизические основы использования спектральных характеристик в...
Учебно-методическое пособие для практических занятий. — Красноярск: Сибирский федеральный университет, 2012. — 55 с. Содержит сведения о системах дистанционного зондирования и системах мониторинга, основных методах обработки снимков, применяющихся в системах мониторинга. Предназначено для студентов, обучающихся по специальности 230201.65 «Информационные системы и технологии» по...
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