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Contents<br/>Acknowledgements vii<br/>Editor ix<br/>Contributors xv<br/>Introduction xv<br/>Section I Sensors, Systems, and Platforms<br/>1. Remote Sensing of Vegetation with Landsat Imagery 3<br/>Conghe Song, Joshua M. Gray, and Feng Gao<br/>2. Review of Selected Moderate-Resolution imaging spectrodiometer Algorithms, Data Products, and Applications 31<br/>Yang Shao, Gregory N. Taff, and Ross S. Lunetta<br/>3. Lidar Remote Sensing 57<br/>Sarin C. Popescu<br/>4. Impulse Synthetic Aperture Radar 85<br/>Giorgio Franceschetti and James Z. Tatman<br/>5. Hyperspectral Remote S ens.m g o f Vegetation Bioparameters 101<br/>Ruiliang Pu and Peng Gong<br/>6. Thermal Remote Sensing of Urban Areas: Theoretical Backgrounds and case studies 143<br/>Qihao Weng<br/>Section II Algorithms and Techniques<br/>7. Atmospheric Correction Methods for Optical Remote Sensing <br/>Imagery of Land 161<br/>Rudolf Richter<br/>8. Three-Dimensional Geometric Correction of Earth Observation<br/>Satellite data 173<br/>Thierry Toutin<br/>9. Remote Sensing Image classification 219<br/>Dengsheng Lu, Qihao Weng, Emilio Moran, Guiying Li, and Scott Hetrick <br/>10. Object-Based Image Analysis for Vegetation Mapping and Monitoring 241<br/>Thomas Blaschke, Kasper Johansen, and Dirk Tiede<br/>11. Land-Use and Land-Cover Change Detection 273<br/>Dengsheng Lu, Emilio Moran, Scott Hetrick, and Guiying Li<br/>Section III Environmental Applications-Vegetation<br/>12. Remote Sensing of ecosystem structure and Function 291<br/>Alfredo R. Huete and Edward P. Glenn<br/>13. Remote of Live Fuel Moisture 321<br/>Stephen R. Yool<br/>14. Forest Change Analysis Using Time-Series Landsat Observations 339<br/>Chengquan Huang<br/>15. Satellite-Based Modeling of Gross Primary Production of<br/>Terrestrial Ecosystems 367<br/>Xiangming Xiao, Huimin Yan, Joshua Kalfas, and Qingyuan Zhang<br/>16. Global Croplands and Their Water Use from Remote Sensing and<br/>N onremote Sensing Perspectives 383<br/>Prasad S. Thenkabail, Munir A. Hanjra, Venkateswarlu Dheeravath,<br/>and Muralikrishna Gumma<br/>Section IV Environmental Applications: Air, Water, and Land<br/>17. Remote Sensing of Aerosols from Space: A Review of Aerosol Retrieval<br/>Using the moderate – Resolution imaging Spectroradiometer 423<br/>Man Sing Wong and Janet Nichol<br/>18. Remote Estimation of Chlorophyll-a Concentration in Inland,<br/>Estuarine, and Coastal Waters 439<br/>Anatoly A. Gitelson, Daniela Curlin, Wesley f. Moses, and Yosef Z. Yacobi<br/>19. Retrievals of Turbulent Heat Fluxes and Surface Soil Water Content by<br/>Remote Sensing 469<br/>George P. Petropoulos and Toby N. Carson<br/>20. Remote Sensing of Urban Biophysical Environments 503<br/>Qihao Weng<br/>21. Development of the USGS National Land-Cover Database over Two Decades 525<br/>George Xian, Collin Homer, and Limin Yang<br/>Index 545<br/> |
