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Record Nr.

UNINA9910270873803321

Autore

Balzter Heiko

Titolo

Earth observation for land and emergency monitoring / / edited by Heiko Balzter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, West Sussex, England : , : Wiley, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

1-118-79374-9

1-118-79373-0

1-118-79378-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (418 pages) : illustrations (some color), tables

Disciplina

363.348

Soggetti

Emergency management - Remote sensing

Artificial satellites in remote sensing

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Earth observation for land and emergency monitoring core services -- Methodology for regional to global mapping of aboveground forest biomass : integrating forest allometry, ground plots, and satellite observations -- Remote sensing for aboveground biomass estimation in boreal forests -- Forest mapping of the Congo basin using synthetic aperture radar (SAR) -- Multi-frequency SAR applications for land cover classification within Copernicus downstream services -- Unsupervised land use/land cover change detection with integrated pixel and object based approaches for high resolution remote sensing imagery -- Earth observation land data assimilation system (EO-LDAS) regularization constraints over Barrax site -- SAR-based EO of salt marsh habitats in support of integrated coastal zone management -- A framework for lakeshore vegetation assessment using field spectroscopy and airborne hyperspectral imagery -- Global monitoring for environment and security (GMES)/Copernicus framework for Lake Balaton phytoplankton monitoring -- InSAR techniques for land deformation monitoring, land deformation mapping, and humanitarian crisis response -- Mapping



land surface displacements in the Swiss Alps with radar interferometry -- Sample supervised search-centric approaches in geographic object-based image analysis : concepts, state of the art and a future outlook -- Remote sensing of wetland dynamics as indicators of water availability in semi-arid Africa -- Satellite derived information for drought detection and estimation of water balance.