... vii viii x xix PART I Thermal infrared data for assessment and quantication of surface energy uxes and soil moisture Estimatingenvironmentalvariablesusingthermalremotesensing 11 KE VI N P ... surface energy uxes and soil moisture chap01 2004/1/20 page #1 Chapter Estimatingenvironmentalvariablesusingthermalremotesensing Kevin P Czajkowski, Samuel N Goward, Theresa Mulhern, Scott ... and A Walz (2002) Thermalremotesensing of near surface water vapor Remote Sens Environ 79: 25365 Dalu, G (1986) Satellite remotesensing of atmospheric water vapour Int J Remote Sens 7: 108997...
... look angles ENVIRONMENTAL APPLICATIONS OF REMOTESENSINGRemotesensing has been used for a wide variety of applications in the environmental sciences Among the earliest uses of remotesensing was ... perspectives Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, vol 58, no 8, pp 1189–1195 Meisner, D.E 1986 Fundamentals of airborne video remotesensingRemoteSensing of Environment, vol 19, no 1, pp ... Geosciences and Remote Sensing, vol.29, no 6, pp 962–985 Elachi, C., 1988 Spaceborne Radar Remote Sensing, IEEE Press, New York Jensen, J.R., 1986 Introductory Digital Image Processing: A Remote Sensing...
... was done using two approaches The first one consisted in using RT code simulations with realistic and exhaustive atmospheric profiles and surface conditions The second method was performed using ground ... due to a saturation effect Another use of the short-wave channels is in estimating the vegetation fractional cover by using another index, the Modified Soil Adjusted Vegetation Index (MSAVI) (Chehbouni ... Methods have been developed using multispectral data (Schmugge et al 1998) and maybe applicable to newer multispectral systems such as ASTER (Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection...
... mapping 117 is recomputed using equation (3.8), new values of Tc and Hc are computed using equations (3.2) and (3.7), respectively, and a new value of LEc is computed using equation (3.6) One ... sub-grid scale variability J Appl Meteorol 2: 817–31 Gillies, R.R and T.N Carlson (1995) Thermalremotesensing of surface soil water content with partial vegetation cover for incorporation into ... validated using ground-based point measurements and (b) mapping the fluxes at high spatial resolution allows an evaluation of the relative importance of various surface and atmospheric variables...
... micrometeorological measurements, or in some cases, usingremotesensing techniques exclusively (Jackson et al 1985; Clothier et al 1986) The remotesensing techniques, however, usually require assumptions ... landscape variables The newest generation of thermalremotesensing instruments [i.e Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+), Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), Advanced Spaceborne Thermal ... surface energy balance, H, is the most difficult to ascertain usingremotesensing data and is consequently the largest source of error in estimating ET Errors in H are introduced in the estimation...
... vegetation, thermal radiances emitted are more apt to contain a blend of energy originating over vegetation and bare soil than microwave radiances “chap06” — 2004/1/20 — page 188 — #4 Remotesensing ... additional source of uncertainty in using surface radiant temperatures to determine soil water content Until the mid-1980s, remote methods for determining soil water content using surface radiant temperatures ... implied in the estimation of soil water content using surface radiant temperature The schematic in Figure 6.9 “chap06” — 2004/1/20 — page 200 — #16 Remotesensing of soil moisture 201 Vertical profiles...
... and J.R Mecikalski (1997) A two-source time-integrated model for estimating surface fluxes usingthermal infrared remotesensingRemote Sens Environ 60: 195–216 Ball, J.T., I.E Woodrow, and J.A ... semi-arid rangeland using remotely sensed data at different spatial resolutions In J.B Stewart, E.T.R Engman, A Feddes and Y Kerr (eds) Scaling up in Hydrology usingRemoteSensing John Wiley, ... Meteorol 36: 281–92 Kimes, D.S (1983) Remotesensing of row crop structure and component temperatures using directional radiometric temperature and inversion techniques Remote Sens Environ 13: 33–55...
... Section 9.4) An outcome of the solar exergy discussion is that surface temperature, and hence, remotesensingthermal imaging, may play a key role in characterizing an ecosystem’s status, maturity, ... for those wishing to conduct exergy analyses of ecosystems, and in the process identifies thermalremotesensing as a necessary exergy analysis tool This chapter does not provide a guide to performing ... originating from a thermal source at 5,762 K (Weston 1992), while the earth’s thermal radiation emissions can be well approximated as blackbody radiation originating from a thermal source at about...
... µm atmospheric window Remote Sens Environ 42: 83–106 Scarpace, F.L., R.P Madding, and T Green III (1974) Scanning thermal plumes In Ninth International Symposium on RemoteSensing of Environment ... Emissivity Emissivity uncertainty Radiance error (si ) using equation (10.7 ) Radiance error using equation (10.3 ) (sx−3 ) Radiance error using equation (10.3) and cooler background (sx−3 ) Melt-point ... good remotesensing days) If the water is very calm (i.e unmixed pools, ponds, even lakes if there is little wind) then solar heating (or radiational and evaporative cooling) can induce a sharp thermal...
... from NOAA thermal IR Remote Sens Environ 49 (3): 296–303 Vidal, A., C Devaux-Ros, and M.S Moran (1997) Atmospheric correction of Landsat TM thermal band using surface energy balance Remote Sens ... Vidal and Perrier 1988) from the surface energy balance for estimating the daily evapotranspiration from an instantaneous midday remotesensing “chap11” — 2004/1/20 — page 407 — #3 408 Alain Vidal ... simulated from Landsat TM thermal IR data (120-m resolution) Since 250-m resolution was envisaged for MUST, Landsat thermal data were resampled at 250-m resolution using bicubic convolution The...
... application, microwave remotesensing has been successfully used for rice crop inventory (Chakraborty and Panigrahy 2000) 2.4 Microwave RemoteSensing and Soil Moisture Remotesensing technology ... and temporal terms In addition to point measurements, soil moisture can be measured usingremotesensingRemotesensing methods can collect spatial data over large areas on a routine basis, providing ... microwave remotesensing 14 The passive microwave systems are based on the measurement of the natural thermal emission in the form of brightness temperature from the earth surface Thermal emission...
... landcenter/tracker/summer2002/envirindic.html [4] K.P Czajkowski et al., Estimatingenvironmentalvariablesusingthermalremote sensing, in ThermalRemoteSensing in Land Surface Processes, CRC Press, New York, 2004 [5] A.N ... achieving related environmental and energy-savings goals) can be most effective Conclusions Urban development intensity and spatial extent can be characterized by using satellite remotesensing data ... alternative, the remotesensing technology has been widely used in numerous applications in order to obtain much of the earth surface spatial information This paper has used remotesensing technology...
... detection and database development. Remotesensing technology can acquire on the ground objects without touching them. Satellite remotesensing collects multi‐ spectral, multi‐resolution and multi‐temporal ... integration of geographic data with remotely sensed imagery to improve classification in an urban area Photogrammetric Engineering and RemoteSensing 61 (1995) 993. [5] Institute of Economic Research and Department ... 12. Bonn: The International Human Dimensions Program on Global Environmental Change, 1999. [8] Q.A. Weng, Remotesensing ‐ GIS evaluation of urban expansion and its impact on surface ...
... Fieldwork 13 2.3 Classification of satellite images 14 2.3.1 Choice of RemoteSensing data 15 2.3.2 Preparation of RemoteSensing data 16 2.3.3 Object- versus pixel-based classification 17 2.4 ... is indispensable regarding decision-making and elaboration of development strategies Using my GIS and RemoteSensing competence and my fascination for the possibilities offered by spatial data ... Rubber in Laos Detection of actual and assessment of potential plantations in Lao PDR using GIS and remotesensing technologies Diplomarbeit der Philosophisch-naturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät...
... write this book 1.3 What is environmental modelling and how can GIs and remotesensing help in environmental modelling 1.4 Contents of the book 1.5 Rcfcrcnces Taxonomy of environmental models in ... 1993) and an earlier book on environmental modelling with G I s (Goodchild et al 1993) 1.3 WHAT IS ENVIRONMENTAL MODELLING AND HOW CAN GIs AND REMOTESENSING HELP IN ENVIRONMENTAL MODELLING? A ... from remotesensing through the direct import of images and classified images, but also through the generation of conventional maps (e.g topographic maps) using photogrammetry Thus remote sensing...
... 2.2a Copyright 2002 Andrew Skidmore Environmental Modelling with CIS and RemoteSensing 2.3.3 Discussion Both inductive and deductive methods have been used for environmental modelling However, ... defined using a number of factors including the leaf area index of between 0.6 and 1.5 Other examples of Copyright 2002 Andrew Skidmore 16 Environmental Modellins with CIS and RemoteSensing ... 2002 Andrew Skidmore 20 Environmental Modelling with CIS and RemoteSensing expert system based only on existing knowledge; that is an expert would deduce a model about an environmental system Such...
... radar remotesensing sensors is given in Table 3.7 Copyright 2002 Andrew Skidmore Envzronrnentul Modelling with GIS and RemoteSensing Table 3.7: A selection of spaceborne radar remotesensing ... Journal of Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing, 54: 299-304 Cloutis, E.A., 1996, Hyperspectral remote sensing: evaluation of analytical techniques Intenational Journal of Remote Sensing, 17:2215-2242 Cracknell, ... Skidmore New environmentalremotesensing systems 43 objects or their geometric properties, e.g a vertical stump of a tree returns more vertical than horizontally polarized signals Radar remote sensing...
... Copyright 2002 Andrew Skidmore Environmental Modelling with CIS and RemoteSensing 174 on vegetation and surface conditions available from high-resolution remotesensing (e.g Landsat and Spot) ... different angles, whereas most remotesensing methods only measure in one angle The emitted longwave radiation can be estimated remotely by means of sensing systems in the thermal IR region, typically ... Andrew Skidmore Environmental Modelling with GIS and RemoteSensing 196 spatial and temporal scales between the processes we need to mimic and the availability of data Remotesensing is playing...