Environmental Monitoring and Management -- Geodata and Geoinformatics -- Fundamentals of Surveying and Geodesy -- Modernization of GNSS -- The Global Positioning System -- Environmental Surveying and Surveillance -- Fundamentals of Remote Sensing -- Optical Remote Sensing -- Microwave Remote Sensing -- Image Interpretation and Analysis -- Fundamentals of Photogrammetry -- Digital Photogrammetry…
Section 1 - Chapters -- Impacting Bodies and Post-Impact Modification Processes on Earth -- Cosmic Impacts: a Planetary Surfaces Modification Process -- Impact Crater -- The Planet Earth: a Review of the Influence of Cratering on the Geological Evolution of our Planet -- Observation from Space: SAR Systems -- Observation from Space: OPTICAL Systems -- Section 2 - Terrestrial Impact Craters List…
Part I: History of Water on Mars -- Climate Evolution and the History of Water on Mars -- Hydrated Minerals and Magmatic Water -- Lacustrine Environments -- Early Life on Earth and Analogies to Mars -- Part II: Water on Present Mars and Potential Habitats -- Water Distribution in the Atmosphere and Soil and the Global Water Cycle -- Cold Region Hydrology and its Analogy for Mars -- Life in Ice …
Introduction -- Solar-Terrestrial Interactions -- Space Weather Causes and Effects -- Ionospheric Disturbances -- Ionospheric Storm Morphology -- Ionospheric Storm Origins and Models -- Ionospheric Irregularities -- Ionospheric Space Weather and Radio Propagation -- Conclusions.This book describes essential concepts of, and the status quo in, the field of ionospheric space weather. It explains …
Introduction: Beginnings of an Adventure -- Chapter 1: The Lure of the Poles -- Chapter 2: The Mountain and Its Madness -- Chapter 3: First Step: Getting There -- Chapter 4: Second Step: McMurdo -- Chapter 5: Working on the Edge -- Chapter 6: Our Voyage Up the Mountain -- Chapter 7: Landscapes on This and Other Worlds -- Chapter 8: Future Explorations -- Chapter 9: Journal Entries -- Glossary -…
Possible Meteoroid Streams Associated with (69230) Hermes and 2002 SY50 -- Are Asteroid 2003 EH1 and Comet C/1490 Y1 Dynamically Related? -- The Problem of Linking Minor Meteor Showers to Their Parent Bodies: Initial Considerations -- Evolution of the Geminids Observed Over 60 Years -- Advantages of Searching for Asteroids from Low Earth Orbit: The NEOSSat Mission -- Dynamical Relation of Meteo…
History and principles of rocket propulsion -- The thermal rocket engine -- Liquid propellant rocket engines -- Solid propellant rocket motors -- Launch vehicle dynamics -- Electric propulsion -- Nuclear propulsion -- Advanced thermal rockets.The revised edition of this practical, hands-on book discusses the range of launch vehicles in use today throughout the world, and includes the very lates…
The Earth's Climate and its Response to Solar Variability: The Climate System -- Atmospheric Dynamics, Modes of Variability and Climate Modelling -- Climate Records -- Radiative Processes in the Atmosphere -- The Greenhouse Effect and Radiative Forcing of Climate Change -- Clouds -- Atmospheric Photochemistry -- Response of Climate to Variations in Solar Irradiance -- The Earth's Electric Field…
The Basic Components of Seismo-Ionospheric Coupling -- Ionospheric Precursors of Earthquakes as they are seen from the Ground and from Space -- Near Ground and Troposphere Plasmachemistry and Electric Field -- Physics of Seismo-Ionospheric Coupling -- Main Phenomenological Features of Ionospheric Precursors of Earthquakes -- Are we Ready for Prediction? The Practical Applications -- Ultimate Re…
Local Starbursts as Benchmarks for Galaxy Evolution -- Local Starbursts in a Cosmological Context -- Starbursts in the Evolving Universe: A Local Perspective -- Are There Local Analogs of Lyman Break Galaxies? -- The Disk Wolf-Rayet Population of the Nuclear Starburst Galaxy M83 -- Laser Illuminates Compact Galaxies -- First Spectroscopic Results from the Spitzer Infrared Nearby Galaxies Survey…