Call number:
PIK L 031-12-0192
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents: Activities of the European Commission in Earth Observation: Part of a common European strategy ; The CEO initiatives to collect and analyze user requirements for Earth Observation ; National strategy for developing Earth Observation applications in Finland ; Operationalization of Earth Observation: Its prospects and requirements ; Remote sensing of forest fires ; Using current and future remote sensing systems in natural hazards management ; Examples of the use of satellite data in numerical weather prediction models ; The contribution of remote sensing technologies and algorithms to land surface processes studies ; Exploitation and evaluation of retrieval algorithms for geostationary satellite data processing: Current and future systems ; The role of remote sensing in land surface experiments within BAHC and ISLSCP ; Earth Observation demands for improved water resources management ; A biophysical process-based estimate of global land surface evaporation using satellite and ancillary data ; Remote sensing of land cover and land cover change ; Land-cover categories versus biophysical attributes to monitor land-cover change by remote sensing ; A new approach to characterize global land surfaces: Preliminary results from AVHRR data ; Remote sensing requirements to support forest inventories ; Some research and applications in the CSIRO (Australia) Earth Observation Centre on scene brightness due to BRDF ; Remote sensing of albedo using the BRDF in relation to land surface properties ; Experimental study of statistical characteristics of plant canopy radiation regime ; Light scattering models and reflectance measurements in remote sensing of snow ; Ray optics approximation for random clusters of Gaussian spheres ; Backscattering of light by snow: Field measurements ; Australian sites for the validation of satellite retrievals of the radiative properties of land surfaces ; Instruments and methods for the ground-level reference measurement of solar radiation, albedo and net radiation ; The NASA Earth System Science program in 21st century ; ESA's plans and strategy for optical remote sensing of terrestrial surfaces in the next decade ; Early results from ADEOS and future Earth Observation missions ; Vegetation: An Earth Observation system to monitor the biosphere ; Hyperspectral imager survey and developments for scientific and operational land processes monitoring applications ; Summary and conclusions
Type of Medium:
Monograph available for loan
Pages:
VII, 341 S. : Ill., graph. Darst., Kt.
ISBN:
0792365038
Series Statement:
Advances in global change research 4
Location:
A 18 - must be ordered
Branch Library:
PIK Library
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