Scaling Up in Hydrology Using Remote Sensing
Published on 10. June 1996
Book
Hardback
272 pages
978-0-471-96829-0 (ISBN)
Description
The most pressing environmental problems are considered to affect the entire globe. For example, climate change, deforestation, desertification are all happening on such a large scale they may affect the sustainability of man's future. To address this question quantitatively there is a need for more reliable data on large scale land use change, and their impacts on water resources and climate. This book brings together the presentations made at a recent workshop of experts to consider the problems of scaling up from local to global spatial scales and from the instantaneous satellite measurements to daily or longer time scales. The authors' collective views represent the state of the art of their science as seen by an active international remote sensing community and ground and planetary-based measurement scientists and modellers.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Chichester
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Illustrations, maps
Dimensions
Height: 251 mm
Width: 171 mm
Weight
640 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-471-96829-0 (9780471968290)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Content
Remote Sensing and Scaling in Hydrology; Effects on Surface Heterogeneity on Thermal Remote Sensing of Land Parameters; Estimation of Aerodynamic Roughness at Various Patial Scales; Areal Average Surface Fluxes from Mesoscale Meteorological Models; Surface Radiation Budget; Estimation of Surface Resistance and Priestley-Taylor Parameter at Different Scales; Spatial Structure and Scaling of Surface Fluxes in a Great Basin Ecosystem; Sensible Heat Flux Remotely-Sensed Data at Different Resolutions; Scintillometer Measurements of Sensible Heat Flux over Heterogeneous Surfaces; Scaling-up Surface Fluxes from Canopy to Region; Responses of the Convective Boundary Layer and the Surface Energy Balance to Large Scale Heterogeneity; Soil Moisture Variability; Spatial Variability of Saturated Soil Hydraulic Conductivity Derived from Remotely Sensed Data; Errors in Estimation of Areal Soil Water Content from SAR Data; Radar and Optional Remote Sensing to Infer Evapotranspriration and Soil Moisture; Daytime Evaporation from Conservation of Surface Flux Ratios; Extrapolation of Evaporation at Time of Satellite Overpass to Daily Totals.