The SAGE Handbook of Remote Sensing

Remote Sensing Data Selection Issues - Timothy A. Warner, Duane Nellis, and Giles M. Foody PART ONE: INTRODUCTION Remote Sensing Data Selection Issues - Timothy A. Warner, Duane Nellis, and Giles M. Foody Remote Sensing Policy - Ray Harris PART TWO: ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION & THE TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT Visible, Near-IR & Shortwave IR Spectral Characteristics of Terrestrial Surfaces - Willem van Leeuwen Interactions of Middle Infrared (3-5 m) Radiation with the Environment - Arthur Cracknell and D. S. Boyd Thermal Remote Sensing in Earth Science Research - Dale Quattrochi and Jeffrey C. Luvall Polarimetric SAR Phenomenology and Inversion Techniques for Vegetated Terrain - Mahta Moghaddam PART THREE: DIGITAL SENSORS AND IMAGE CHARACTERISTICS Optical Sensor Technology - John Kerekes Fine spatial resolution optical sensors - Thierry Toutin Moderate Spatial Resolution Optical Sensors - Samuel N. Goward, Terry Arvidson, Darrel L. Williams, Richard Irish and Jim Irons Coarse Resolution Optical Sensors - Chris Justice and Compton Tucker Airborne Digital Multispectral Imaging - Doug Stow, Lloyd L. Coulter and Cody A. Benkelman PART FOUR: REMOTE SENSING ANALYSIS: DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION Imaging Spectrometers - Michael Schaepma Active and Passive Microwave Systems - Josef Kellndorfer and Kyle McDonald Airborne Laser Scanning - Juha Hyyppa, W. Wagner, M. Hollaus and H. Hyyppa Radiometry and reflectance: From terminology concepts to measured quantities - Gabriela Schaepman-Strub, Michael E. Schaepman, John V. Martonchik, Thomas H. Painter and Stefan Dangel Pre-Processing of Optical Imagery - Freek van der Meer and Harald van der Werff and Steven de Jong Surface Reference Data Collection - Chris Johannsen and Craig S. T. Daughtry Integrating Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems - James Merchant and Sunil Narumalani Image Classification - John Jensen, Jungho Im, Perry Hardin, Ryan R. Jensen Quantitative Models and Inversion in Optical Remote Sensing - Shunlin Liang Accuracy Assessment - Steve Stehman, Giles Foody PART FIVE: REMOTE SENSING ANALYSIS: APPLICATIONS A. LITHOSPHERIC SCIENCES Making Sense of the Third Dimension Through Topographic Analysis - Yongxin Deng Remote Sensing of Geology - Xianfeng Chen and David Campagna Remote Sensing of Soils - Jim Campbell B. PLANT SCIENCES Remote sensing for studies of vegetation condition: Theory and application - Mike Wulder, Joanne C. White, Nicholas C. Coops and Stephanie Ortlepp Remote Sensing of Cropland Agriculture - M. Duane Nellis, Kevin Price and Don Rundquist C. HYDROSPHERIC & CRYSOPHERIC SCIENCES Optical Remote Sensing of the Hydrosphere: From the open ocean to inland waters - Samantha Lavender Remote Sensing of the Cryosphere - Jeff Dozier D. GLOBAL CHANGE AND HUMAN ENVIRONMENTS Remote Sensing for Terrestrial Biogeochemical Modeling - Greg Asner and Scott V. Ollinger Remote Sensing of Urban Areas - Janet Nichol Remote sensing and the social sciences - Kelley Crews and Stephen J. Walsh Hazard Assessment and Disaster Management using Remote Sensing - Richard Teeuw, Paul Aplin, Nick McWilliam, Toby Wicks, Matthieu Kervyn and Gerald Ernst Remote Sensing of Land Cover Change - Timothy A. Warner, Abdullah Almutairi and Jong Yeol Lee PART SIX:. CONCLUSIONS Remote Sensing: A Look to the Future - Giles M. Foody, Timothy A. Warner and M. Duane Nellis