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Note: Foreword ; Preface ; Acknowledgments ; Editor ; Contributors ; SECTION I Vegetation and Biomass : 1 Monitoring Photosynthesis from Space, Alfredo Huete, Guillermo Ponce-Campos, Yongguang Zhang, Natalia Restrepo-Coupe, Xuanlong Ma, and Mary Susan Moran ; 2 Canopy Biophysical Variables Retrieval from the Inversion of Reflectance Models, Frederic Baret ; 3 Aboveground Terrestrial Biomass and Carbon Stock Estimations from Multisensor Remote Sensing, Wenge Ni-Meister ; SECTION II Agricultural Croplands : 4 Agriculture, Clement Atzberger, Francesco Vuolo, Anja Klisch, Felix Rembold, Michele Meroni, Marcia Pupin Mello, and Antonio Formaggio ; 5 Agricultural Systems Studies Using Remote Sensing, Agnes Begue, Damien Arvor, Camille Lelong, Elodie Vintrou, and Margareth Simoes ; 6 Global Food Security Support Analysis Data at Nominal 1 km (GFSADlkm) Derived from Remote Sensing in Support of Food Security in the Twenty-First Century: Current Achievements and Future Possibilities, Pardhasaradhi Teluguntla, Prasad S. Thenkabail, Jun Xiong, Murali Krishna Gumma, Chandra Giri, Cristina Milesi, Mutlu Ozdogan, Russell G. Congatton, James Tilton, Temuulen Tsagaan Sankey, Richard Massey, Aparna Phalke, and Kamini Yadav ; 7 Precision Farming, David J. Mulla and Yuxin Miao ; 8 Remote Sensing of Tillage Status, Baojuan Zheng, James B. Campbell, Guy Serbin, Craig S.T. Daughtry, Heather McNairn, and Anna Pacheco ; 9 Hyperspectral Remote Sensing for Terrestrial Applications, Prasad S. Thenkabail, Pardhasaradhi Teluguntla, Murali Krishna Gumma, and Venkateswarlu Dheeravath ; SECTION III Rangelands : 10 Global View of Remote Sensing of Rangelands: Evolution, Applications, Future Pathways, Matthew c. Reeves, Robert A. Washington-Allen, Jay Angerer, E. Raymond Hunt, Jr., Ranjani Wasantha Kulawardhana, Lalit Kumar, Tatiana Loboda, Thomas Loveland, Graciela Metternicht, and R. Douglas Ramsey ; 11 Remote Sensing of Rangeland Biodiversity, E. Raymond Hunt, Jr., Cuizhen Wang, D. Terrance Booth, Samuel E. Cox, La/it Kumar, and Matthew C. Reeves ; 12 Characterization, Mapping, and Monitoring of Rangelands: Methods and Approaches, La/it Kumar, Priyakant Sinha, Jesslyn F. Brown, R. Douglas Ramsey, Matthew Rigge, Carson A. Stam, Alexander J. Hernandez, E. Raymond Hunt, Jr., and Matthew C. Reeves ; SECTION IV Phenology and Food Security : 13 Global Land Surface Phenology and Implications for Food Security, Molly E. Brown, Kirsten M. de Beurs, and Kathryn Grace ; SECTION V Forests : 14 Characterizing Tropical Forests with Multispectral Imagery, E.H. Helmer, Nicholas R. Goodwin, Valery Gond, Carlos M. Souza, Jr., and Gregory P. Asner ; 15 Remote Sensing of Forests from Lidar and Radar, Juha Hyyppii, Mika Karjalainen, Xinlian Liang, Anttoni Jaakkola, Xiaowei Yu, Michael Wulder, Markus Hollaus, Joanne C. White, Mikko Vastaranta, Kirsi Kari/a, Harri Kaartinen, Matti Vaaja, Ville Kankare, Antero Kukko, Markus Holopainen, Hannu Hyyppii, and Masato Katoh ; 16 Forest Biophysical and Biochemical Properties from Hyperspectral and LiDAR Remote Sensing, Gregory P. Asner, Susan L. Ustin, Philip A. Townsend, Roberta E. Martin, and K. Dana Chadwick ; 17 Optical Remote Sensing of Tree and Stand Heights, Sylvie Durrieu, Cedric Vega, Marc Bouvier, Frederic Gosselin, Jean-Pierre Renaud, and Laurent Saint-Andre ; SECTION VI Biodiversity : 18 Biodiversity of the World: A Study from Space, Thomas W Gillespie, Andrew Fricker, Chelsea Robinson, and Duccio Rocchini ; 19 Multiscale Habitat Mapping and Monitoring Using Satellite Data and Advanced Image Analysis Techniques, Stefan Lang, Christina Corbane, Palma Bionda, Kyle Pipkins, and Michael Forster ; SECTION VII Ecology : 20 Ecological Characterization of Vegetation Using Multisensor Remote Sensing in the Solar Reflective Spectrum, Conghe Song, Jing Ming Chen, Taehee Hwang, A/emu Gonsamo, Holly Croft, Quanfa Zhang,Matthew Dannenberg, Yulong Zhang, Christopher Hakkenberg, and Juxiang Li ; SECTION VIII Land Use/Land Cover : 21 Land Cover Change Detection, John Rogan and Nathan Mietkiewicz ; 22 Land Use and Land Cover Mapping and Change Detection and Monitoring Using Radar Remote Sensing, Zhixin Qi, Anthony Gar-On Yeh, and Xia Li ; SECTION IX Carbon : 23 Global Carbon Budgets and the Role of Remote Sensing, Richard A. Houghton ; SECTION X Soils : 24 Spectral Sensing from Ground to Space in Soil Science: State of the Art, Applications, Potential, and Perspectives, Jose A. M. Dematte, Cristine L. S. Morgan, Sabine Chabrillat, Rodnei Rizzo, Marston H. D. Franceschini, Fabrfcio da S. Terra, Gustavo M. Vasques, and Johanna Wetterlind ; 25 Remote Sensing of Soil in the Optical Domains, E. Ben-Dor amd José A.M. Demattê ; SECTION XI Summary : 26 Remote Sensing of Land Resources: Monitoring, Modeling, and Mapping Advances over the Last 50 Years and a Vision for the Future, Prasad S. Thenkabail ; Index