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Land Surface Remote Sensing
Environment and Risks
Exploring the use of remote sensing techniques for studying the global land surface, this informative book covers characterizing aerosols and gases, quantifying geomorphological processes, and using applications in mining, volcanology, insect control, and infectious disease
Mehrez Zribi (Author), Nicolas Baghdadi (Edited by)
9781785481055, Elsevier Science
Hardback, published 10 October 2016
384 pages
22.9 x 15.1 x 2.6 cm, 0.53 kg
Land Surface Remote Sensing: Environment and Risks explores the use of remote sensing in applications concerning the environment, including desertification and monitoring deforestation and forest fires. The first chapter covers the characterization of aerosols and gases by passive remote sensing. The next chapter presents the correlation of optical images for quantifying the deformation of the Earth's surface and geomorphological processes. The third chapter is examines remote sensing applications in the mining environment. The fourth chapter depicts the strong potential of radar imagery for volcanology and urban and mining subsidence studies. The next two chapters deal respectively with the use of remote sensing in locust control and the contribution of remote sensing to the epidemiology of infectious diseases. In the last ten years, spatial observation of the Earth—particularly continental surfaces—has expanded considerably with the launch of increasing numbers of satellites covering various applications (hydrology, biosphere, flow of surface, snow, ice, landslide, floods). This has paved the way for an explosion in the use of remote sensing data. This book offers essential coverage of space-based observation techniques for continental surfaces. The authors explore major applications and provide a corresponding detailed chapter for the physical principles, physics of measurement, and data processing requirements for each technique, bringing you up-to-date descriptions of techniques used by leading scientists in the field of remote sensing and Earth observation.
1: Drylands and Desertification 2: Remote Sensing and Measuring Deforestation 3: Remote Sensing of Wildfires 4: Characterization of Industrial Plumes 5: Monitoring of Earth Surface Motion and Geomorphologic Processes by Optical Image Correlation 6: Application of Optical Remote Sensing for Monitoring Environmental Impacts of Mining: From Exploitation to Postmining 7: The Contribution of SAR Data to Volcanology and Subsidence Studies 8: Applications of Remote Sensing to Locust Management 9: Applications of Remote Sensing to the Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases: Some Examples
Subject Areas: The environment [RN], Geographical information systems [GIS & remote sensing RGW]
