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