Remote Sensing and Climate Change
Role of Earth Observation
Published on 2. April 2001
Book
Hardback
XXXII, 301 pages
978-1-85233-321-8 (ISBN)
Description
Data captured from remote sensing systems in space yield evidence of global climate changes. In this book international experts consider the potential value of such data. In particular they address the problem of calibration to ensure that detected changes do not arise from drift in the calibration of the instrument. Consideration is given to large international projects on cloud climatology, archived meteorological satellite data, and to vegetation indices derived from the global sets. This book concludes with a discussion on the future role of satellite data.
Reviews / Votes
From the reviews:
"This book is about the changing face of the planet Earth, especially the climate, as seen from satellites. . This book helps readers get a good understanding of Earth climate changes through different satellite archives. At the end of the book are about ten pages of references for anyone interested in more details." (Fouad Michael, American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Vol. 86 (2), February, 2002)
More details
Series
Edition
1st Edition.
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
Illustrations (some col.), maps (some col.)
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Weight
840 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85233-321-8 (9781852333218)
Schweitzer Classification
Content
Preface.- List of Contributors.- 1. Background (A P Cracknell).- 2. Global climate change. Socio-economic aspects of the problem (K Ya Kondratyev and A P Cracknell).- 3. Satellite climatology - current and future European systems (R A vaughan).- 4. Atmosphereic data assimilation (A O' Neill).- 5. Land cover datasets derived from Earth observation systems for global change science (A Belward).- 6. Calibration of the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (C R Nagarajao Rao and J T sullivan).- 7. Long-term global climate datasets from operational satellites (G Ohring).- 8. Validation of climate model outputs (J Palutikof).- 9. Cooling off on global warming - the continuing debate (R A Vaughan).- 10. International co-operation - a prerequisite for global environmental observations (A Belward).- 11. Global dataset creation - experience of the IGBP DISCover project (A Belward).- 12. A policy context for global environmental information systems (A Belward).- 13. ENVISAT - the mission (S Wilson).- 14. Supercomputing for the masses - SETI§Home project (C P cracknell).- 15. Earth-observing systems and model-simulated datasets for climate study (V Djepa, R A Vaughan, M Menenti).- References.- Index.