UNL-VRTM, a testbed for aerosol remote sensing: model developments and applications -- Scattering of radiation and simple approaches to radiative transfer in thermal engineering and biomedical applications -- Bio-optical properties of terrestrial snow and ice -- Accurate determination of the size and mass of polymers, nanoparticles, and fine bubbles in water -- Radiative properties of atmospher…
Chapter1: Why This Book? -- Chapter2: Food Security – the 21st Century Issue -- Chapter3: Operational Satellites for Earth Monitoring -- Chapter4: Vegetation Health Method -- Chapter5: Monitoring Drought from Space and Food Security -- Chapter6: Vegetation Health-based Modeling Crop Yield and Food Security Prediction -- Chapter7: Vegetation Health for Insuring Drought-Related Yield Losses and…
Part 1: Instrumentation, network and processing -- Chapter 1.The IMS Infrasound Network: Status and state-of-the-art design (Julien Mary) -- Chapter 2. New generations of infrasound sensors: Technological developments and calibration (G. Nief) -- Chapter 3. New systems for wind noise reduction for infrasonic measurements (Jeremy Webster) -- Chapter 4. Geoacoustic observations on drifting balloo…
Chapter1: Basic concepts -- Chapter2: The origin of digital numbers (DN) -- Chapter3: Orbital sensors -- Chapter4: Linear spectral mixing model -- Chapter5: Fraction images -- Chapter6: Applications of fraction images -- Chapter7: Final considerations.This book explains in a didactic way the basic concepts of spectral mixing, digital numbers and orbital sensors, and then presents the linear mod…
TanDEM-X DEM, Sentinel Optical and Radar Data, Landsat Surface Reflectance -- Machine Learning Using SVMs and Random Forest -- Statistical Time-Series Evaluation -- Maps of Land Use and Cover (LULC) -- Time-Series Showing the Impact of ENSO.How is the vegetation distribution influencing the erosion and surface formation in the different eco zones of Chile? To answer this question, it is mandato…
Part 1 Global gravity field modelling -- Rigorous evaluation of gravity field functionals from satellite-only gravitational models within topography -- Application of the Recursive Least-Squares adaptive filter on simulated satellite gravity gradiometry data -- Part 2 Local/regional geoid determination methods and models -- Accuracy of regional geoid modelling with GOCE -- The effect of noise o…