Remote Sensing and Global Environmental Change
1. Edition February 2011
384 Pages, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
Remote Sensing plays a key role in monitoring the various
manifestations of global climate change. It is used routinely
in the assessment and mapping of biodiversity over large areas, in
the monitoring of changes to the physical environment, in assessing
threats to various components of natural systems, and in the
identification of priority areas for conservation.
This book presents the fundamentals of remote sensing
technology, but rather than containing lengthy explanations of
sensor specifications and operation, it concentrates instead on the
application of the technology to key environmental systems.
Each system forms the basis of a separate chapter, and each is
illustrated by real world case studies and
examples.
Readership
The book is intended for advanced undergraduate and graduate
students in earth science, environmental science, or physical
geography taking a course in environmental remote sensing. It
will also be an invaluable reference for environmental scientists
and managers who require an overview of the use of remote sensing
in monitoring and mapping environmental change at regional and
global scales.
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Chapter 2: A history of the use of Remote Sensing to Monitor Global Change.
Chapter 3: The Cryosphere, Ice shelf degradation and ICEsat Lidar.
Chapter 4: Vegetation indices and deforestation.
Chapter 5: Mapping Earth's atmospheres.
Chapter 6: The status of the worlds coral reefs.
Chapter 7: Monitoring urban growth using remote sensing.
Chapter 8: An eye on rising sea level.
Chapter 9: Lidar, levees and predicting the march of the sea.
Chapter 10: Space-based evidence for Global Warming.
information on remote sensing of the Earth's surface for the study
of global environmental change...the book's strengths include the
comprehensive material presented in the chapters on remote sensing
of the land, oceans and coastal regions, which are areas of
expertise for the authors. For this reason alone it is a valuable
addition to the bookshelf of any student of remote sensing."
(Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, June
2013)
"An exciting and informative book to read and a pleasure
to review, this work constitutes a generalist's dream. . . By
that virtue, this book should also appeal to the informed public at
large." (Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote
Sensing, 1 October 2012)
"I would recommend this book to those unfamiliar with
remote-sensing methods and applications and to others who want to
see how these techniques can be applied to global environmental
change." (The Leading Edge, 1 May 2012)
"I highly recommend the well explained and invaluable reference
book Remote Sensing and Global Environmental Change by Samuel J.
Purkis and Victor V. Klemas, to any students, professionals, and
policy makers who are seeking a comprehensive and well presented
approach to the application of remote sensing technology to global
environmental change. This book will enhance and enrich your
understanding of remote sensing, and of its accompanying
technologies and environmental applications." (Blog Business World,
22 October 2011)
"The book covers in a very comprehensive way many aspects of
remote sensing providing a global view of the physical
background, models, a variety of sensors and several
applications. Culturally, the book provides a clear picture of
the remote sensing as a three-leg problem: measurements,
models and inversion. The reader is guided into a tour of the
most challenging services within GMES and GOESS
programs. Authors are able to teach and fascinate at the same
time."
Maurizio Migliaccio
Università di Napoli Parthenope, Italy
"This book is written by two internationally leading
scholars who have over 50 years combined experience in remote
sensing and Earth sciences. It examines how the modern concepts,
technologies and methods in remote sensing can be effectively used
to solve problems relevant to a wide range of topics in global
environmental change studies. And it has a companion site that
contains all the figures and tables included in the book. This book
is invaluable for undergraduate and graduate teaching, while
providing a good overview of the technology to a manager or
scientist."
Xiaojun Yang, Ph.D. Department of Geography, Florida
State University, USA
National Coral Reef Institute, Nova Southeastern University
Oceanographic Center, Florida, USA. Here, he directs a team focused
on remote sensing solutions for the regional-scale appraisal of
shallow-water tropical ecosystems. His experience in the Earth and
Marine Sciences spans more than fifteen years and all of Earth's
major coral reef provinces, ranging from ecological assessment,
through sophisticated geostatistical modelling, to carbonate
geology.
Victor V. Klemas (PhD) is Professor Emeritus at the
College of Earth, Ocean and Environment, University of Delaware.
Since 1976 he has directed the university's Center for Remote
Sensing, where he has pioneered the application of a wide range of
remote sensing techniques to studies of wetland and estuarine
ecosystems along major coasts of the world. He has served on six
scientific committees of the National Research Council (NAS) and
various government advisory panels.
