Thermal Remote Sensing in Land Surface Processes - Chapter 11 (end) doc
Thermal Remote Sensing in Land Surface Processes - Chapter 11 (end) doc
... caveats, and in- depth dis-
cussions that illustrate the “how to’s” and “how not’s” of collecting, pre-
and post-processing, interpreting, analyzing, quantifying, and modeling of
TIR remote sensing data, ... of the Seine river basin), and of Barrax
(Albacete–La Mancha–Spain), using the approach in equation (11. 4).
Forest fires
Fire-fighting authorities have been using short-term fire ris...
Thermal Remote Sensing in Land Surface Processes - Chapter 1 pptx
... Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, in 1995. He publishes in the
areas of remote sensing and meteorology and recently has been focusing on
interdisciplinary research in the application of remote sensing in ... Toledo, Ohio. His research
interests includeremote sensing and land/ atmosphere interactions. Inaddi-
tion, he works with local decision makers to develop remote sensing...
Thermal Remote Sensing in Land Surface Processes - Chapter 2 ppt
... version of the AVHRR has two different
thermal infrared channels. The AVHRR/2 has five channels in the short wave
(red and near-infrared), mid-infrared, and thermal infrared. The AVHRR/2
field of view ... small as possible. In most cases
the satellite-borne sensors are designed to work in one of the thermal region
“atmospheric windows” (10.5–12.5 µm in this chapter) . When this c...
Thermal Remote Sensing in Land Surface Processes - Chapter 3 docx
... meteorological inputs required for the data include:
incoming solar radiation, near -surface air temperature, relative humidity,
and windspeed. Spatially distributed values for the near -surface air temper-
ature ... follows: (a)
incoming solar radiation is a model input typically provided by ground mea-
surements; (b) outgoing solar radiation is computing using incoming solar
campaign. A d...
Thermal Remote Sensing in Land Surface Processes - Chapter 4 pptx
... of the surface energy balance, H, is the
most difficult to ascertain using remote sensing data and is consequently
the largest source of error in estimating ET. Errors in H are introduced in
the ... Vidal-madjar 1994; Tueller 1994).
All of these investigations have used aircraft-based instruments and were lim-
ited to small areas. In only a few investigations has satellite-based...
Thermal Remote Sensing in Land Surface Processes - Chapter 6 doc
... becomes increasingly
obvious as the surface layer in the model is reduced in thickness.
6.2.4 A soil experiment
In order to study the drying process in relation to the surface radiant tem-
perature, ... known remote sensing technique, as
each method has its limitations and each pertains to a different facet of the
soil water profile. Indeed, a point to be made in this chapte...
Thermal Remote Sensing in Land Surface Processes - Chapter 7 pdf
... parameters, including leaf width, l
w
,
c
inal 30-m Landsat-5 TM data were degraded to the 90-m resolution of the
T
R
(φ) data.
The flux output of the model using 90-m pixel resolution image is shown in
fluxes ... of the Landsat-7 and the EOS-Terra satel-
lite supporting the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection
Radiometer (ASTER) instrument, which will be used for surface flu...
Thermal Remote Sensing in Land Surface Processes - Chapter 9 pptx
... with the purpose of establish-
ing a link between ecosystem exergy analysis and thermal remote sensing,
a minimum of mathematics is used by focussing on a non-reacting, control
mass,
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system. ... include
controlling the amount of exergy available for destruction.
9.5 Linking thermal remote sensing to ecosystem
organization
9.5.1 Life as an exergy destroyer
Section “Exergy’s role...
Thermal Remote Sensing in Land Surface Processes - Chapter 10 pot
... material in the
8–14 µm atmospheric window. Remote Sens. Environ. 42: 83–106.
Scarpace, F.L., R.P. Madding, and T. Green III (1974) Scanning thermal plumes.
In Ninth International Symposium on Remote ... standards since they are typically
calibrated to the primary melt-point blackbody at NIST.
For field or in- flight calibration of instruments, a thermo-electric flat
lize thermo-elect...
Sediment and Contaminant Transport in Surface Waters - Chapter 8 (end) doc
... sedi-
ment surface (e.g., see Robbins and Edgington, 1975; Robbins et al., 1978; Fuller
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in height) ... summarized in Table 8.2. Of course,
although the percentage of resuspended PCBs that remains in the water decreases
as the wind speed increases, the total amount of PCBs remainin...