UID:
almafu_9960073715302883
Umfang:
1 online resource (504 pages).
ISBN:
9780081011812
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0081011814
Serie:
Remote Sensing Observations of Continental Surfaces Set
Anmerkung:
Front Cover -- Land Surface Remote Sensing in Continental Hydrology -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acronyms -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Characterization of Soil Surface Properties Using Radar Remote Sensing -- 1.1. Thematic introduction -- 1.2. Description of soil parameters -- 1.3. Radar signal sensitivity to soil parameters -- 1.4. Modeling of radar backscattering on bare soil -- 1.5. Estimation of soil parameters at plot scale based on high and very high spatial resolution data -- 1.6. Estimation of soil parameters with medium spatial resolution -- 1.7. Prospects -- 1.8. Key points -- 1.9. Bibliography -- Chapter 2. Estimation of Soil Water Conditions Using Passive Microwave Remote Sensing -- 2.1. General introduction -- 2.2. Principle of passive microwave soil moisture estimation -- 2.3. Methods for surface soil moisture estimation -- 2.4. Soil moisture products derived from passive microwave space-borne observations -- 2.5. Methods for disaggregating satellite soil moisture products derived from passive microwave observations -- 2.6. Other moisture products derived from passive microwave observations -- 2.7. Principal applications -- 2.8. Conclusion -- 2.9. Key points -- 2.10. Acknowledgments -- 2.11. Bibliography -- Chapter 3. Using Satellite Scatterometers to Monitor Continental Surfaces -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. Principle of acquisition for scatterometers -- 3.3. The main scatterometers -- 3.4. Thematic applications -- 3.5. Conclusions and prospects -- 3.6. Key points -- 3.7. Bibliography -- Chapter 4. Optical Remote Sensing of Snow Cover -- 4.1. Introduction: the importance of snow cover -- 4.2. Optical properties of snow -- 4.3. Properties of snow cover observable by optical remote sensing -- 4.4. The use of data produced from snow-covered surfaces in hydrology -- 4.5. Possibilities -- 4.6. Key points -- 4.7. Bibliography.
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Chapter 5. Snow Characterization Using Radar Imaging -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. Radar interaction and snow cover -- 5.3. Mapping snow cover -- 5.4. Current users and future prospects -- 5.5. Key points -- 5.6. Bibliography -- Chapter 6. Spatial Altimetry and Continental Waters -- 6.1. Introduction -- 6.2. Some generalities concerning the use of satellite altimetry for hydrology -- 6.3. Case studies using radar and laser altimetry -- 6.4. Using altimetry to estimate river flow -- 6.5. Impact of adjustments and uses of altimetry -- 6.6. Conclusion and prospects -- 6.7. Key points -- 6.8. Bibliography -- Chapter 7. Radar Altimetry for Monitoring the Antarctic Ice Sheet -- 7.1. Introduction -- 7.2. Antarctica -- 7.3. Polar altimetry -- 7.4. Contribution to climatology -- 7.5. Antarctica in a stationary state -- 7.6. Temporal variations -- 7.7. Summary and perspective -- 7.8. Key points -- 7.9. Bibliography -- Chapter 8. Monitoring Water Mass Redistributions on Land and Polar Ice Sheets Using the GRACE Gravimetry from Space Mission -- 8.1. Introduction -- 8.2. Post-processing techniques for global solutions -- 8.3. Regional approaches -- 8.4. Applications -- 8.5. Perspectives -- 8.6. Key points -- 8.7. Bibliography -- Chapter 9. Applications of GNSS-Rin Continental Hydrology -- 9.1. Introduction -- 9.2. Background on measurement and GNSS-R observable techniques -- 9.3. Altimetry -- 9.4. Soil moisture -- 9.5. Vegetation cover -- 9.6. Conclusions and perspectives -- 9.7. Key points -- 9.8. Bibliography -- Chapter 10. Energy Balance of Continental Surfaces and the Use of Surface Temperature -- 10.1. Introduction -- 10.2. Energy budget and surface temperature -- 10.3. Surface temperature data -- 10.4. Estimating evapotranspiration -- 10.5. Other applications -- 10.6. Prospects -- 10.7. Key points -- 10.8. Bibliography.
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Chapter 11. Remote Sensing Data Assimilation: Applications to Catchment Hydrology -- 11.1. Introduction -- 11.2. Hydrological models -- 11.3. Satellite data available for assimilation -- 11.4. Description of data assimilation -- 11.5. Examples of assimilation in hydrological models -- 11.6. Application example: assimilation of SMOS's soil moisture in the DHSVM hydrological model, on the Ouémé catchment, Benin -- 11.7. A favorable future to assimilation in hydrology -- 11.8. Key points -- 11.9. Bibliography -- Chapter 12. Satellite Data Assimilation: Applicationto the Water and Carbon Cycles -- 12.1. Assimilation: what is the purpose? -- 12.2. Analyses of the vegetation and soil moisture for numerical weather prediction -- 12.3. Water: from the soil to the river -- 12.4. Natural sinks and sources of CO2 -- 12.5. Conclusions and perspectives -- 12.6. Key points -- 12.7. Bibliography -- Glossary -- List of Authors -- Index -- Scientific Committee -- Back Cover.
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781785481048
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 1785481045
Sprache:
Englisch
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