Purkis / Klemas Remote Sensing and Global Environmental Change

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4443-4025-9
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 384 Seiten, E-Book

Remote Sensing plays a key role in monitoring the variousmanifestations of global climate change. It is used routinelyin the assessment and mapping of biodiversity over large areas, inthe monitoring of changes to the physical environment, in assessingthreats to various components of natural systems, and in theidentification of priority areas for conservation.
This book presents the fundamentals of remote sensingtechnology, but rather than containing lengthy explanations ofsensor specifications and operation, it concentrates instead on theapplication of the technology to key environmental systems. Each system forms the basis of a separate chapter, and each isillustrated by real world case studies andexamples.
Readership
The book is intended for advanced undergraduate and graduatestudents in earth science, environmental science, or physicalgeography taking a course in environmental remote sensing. Itwill also be an invaluable reference for environmental scientistsand managers who require an overview of the use of remote sensingin monitoring and mapping environmental change at regional andglobal scales.
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Autoren/Hrsg.

Purkis, Sam J.

Klemas, Victor V.

Über Autor(innen)

Samuel J. Purkis (PhD) is an Associate Professor at theNational Coral Reef Institute, Nova Southeastern UniversityOceanographic Center, Florida, USA. Here, he directs a team focusedon remote sensing solutions for the regional-scale appraisal ofshallow-water tropical ecosystems. His experience in the Earth andMarine Sciences spans more than fifteen years and all of Earth'smajor coral reef provinces, ranging from ecological assessment,through sophisticated geostatistical modelling, to carbonategeology.
Victor V. Klemas (PhD) is Professor Emeritus at theCollege of Earth, Ocean and Environment, University of Delaware.Since 1976 he has directed the university's Center for RemoteSensing, where he has pioneered the application of a wide range ofremote sensing techniques to studies of wetland and estuarineecosystems along major coasts of the world. He has served on sixscientific committees of the National Research Council (NAS) andvarious government advisory panels.