Remote Sensing Handbook - Three Volume Set: Land Resources Monitoring, Modeling, and Mapping with Remote Sensing

858 Pages·2015·181.66 MB·English

by  Prasad S. Thenkabail

REMOTE SENSING HANDBOOK
VOLUME II
LAND RESOURCES MONITORING,
MODELING, AND MAPPING
WITH REMOTE SENSING
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REMOTE SENSING HANDBOOK
VOLUME II
LAND RESOURCES MONITORING,
MODELING, AND MAPPING
WITH REMOTE SENSING
Edited by
Prasad S. Thenkabail, PhD
United States Geological Survey (USGS)

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Land resources monitoring, modeling, and mapping with remote sensing / editor, Prasad S. Thenkabail.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4822-1795-7 (alk. paper)
1. Remote sensing. 2. Natural resources--Remote sensing. I. Thenkabail, Prasad Srinivasa, 1958- editor of compilation.
G70.4.L33 2015
621.36’78--dc23 2015001323
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Contents
Foreword ........................................................................................................................................................xi
Preface.........................................................................................................................................................xvii
Acknowledgments .....................................................................................................................................xxiii
Editor ........................................................................................................................................................xxvii
Contributors ..............................................................................................................................................xxxi
Section i Vegetation and Biomass
1 Monitoring Photosynthesis from Space ................................................................................................................3
Alfredo Huete, Guillermo Ponce-Campos, Yongguang Zhang, Natalia Restrepo-Coupe, Xuanlong Ma,
and Mary Susan Moran
2 Canopy Biophysical Variables Retrieval from the Inversion of Reflectance Models .............................23
Frédéric Baret
3 Aboveground Terrestrial Biomass and Carbon Stock Estimations from Multisensor Remote
Sensing .........................................................................................................................................................................47
Wenge Ni-Meister
Section ii Agricultural croplands
4 Agriculture ..................................................................................................................................................................71
Clement Atzberger, Francesco Vuolo, Anja Klisch, Felix Rembold, Michele Meroni, Marcio Pupin Mello,
and Antonio Formaggio
5 Agricultural Systems Studies Using Remote Sensing ....................................................................................113
Agnès Bégué, Damien Arvor, Camille Lelong, Elodie Vintrou, and Margareth Simoes

6 Global Food Security Support Analysis Data at Nominal 1 km (GFSAD1km) Derived
from Remote Sensing in Support of Food Security in the Twenty-First Century: Current
Achievements and Future Possibilities ..............................................................................................................131
Pardhasaradhi Teluguntla, Prasad S. Thenkabail, Jun Xiong, Murali Krishna Gumma, Chandra Giri,
Cristina Milesi, Mutlu Ozdogan, Russell G. Congalton, James Tilton, Temuulen Tsagaan Sankey, Richard Massey,
Aparna Phalke, and Kamini Yadav
7 Precision Farming ...................................................................................................................................................161
David J. Mulla and Yuxin Miao
8 Remote Sensing of Tillage Status ........................................................................................................................179
Baojuan Zheng, James B. Campbell, Guy Serbin, Craig S.T. Daughtry, Heather McNairn, and Anna Pacheco
9 Hyperspectral Remote Sensing for Terrestrial Applications .......................................................................201
Prasad S. Thenkabail, Pardhasaradhi Teluguntla, Murali Krishna Gumma, and Venkateswarlu Dheeravath
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Section iii Rangelands
10 Global View of Remote Sensing of Rangelands: Evolution, Applications, Future Pathways .............237
Matthew C. Reeves, Robert A. Washington-Allen, Jay Angerer, E. Raymond Hunt, Jr., Ranjani Wasantha Kulawardhana,
Lalit Kumar, Tatiana Loboda, Thomas Loveland, Graciela Metternicht, and R. Douglas Ramsey
11 Remote Sensing of Rangeland Biodiversity ......................................................................................................277
E. Raymond Hunt, Jr., Cuizhen Wang, D. Terrance Booth, Samuel E. Cox, Lalit Kumar, and Matthew C. Reeves
12 Characterization, Mapping, and Monitoring of Rangelands: Methods and Approaches ...................309
Lalit Kumar, Priyakant Sinha, Jesslyn F. Brown, R. Douglas Ramsey, Matthew Rigge, Carson A. Stam,
Alexander J. Hernandez, E. Raymond Hunt, Jr., and Matthew C. Reeves
Section iV Phenology and Food Security
13 Global Land Surface Phenology and Implications for Food Security .......................................................353
Molly E. Brown, Kirsten M. de Beurs, and Kathryn Grace
Section V Forests
14 Characterizing Tropical Forests with Multispectral Imagery ....................................................................367
E.H. Helmer, Nicholas R. Goodwin, Valéry Gond, Carlos M. Souza, Jr., and Gregory P. Asner
15 Remote Sensing of Forests from Lidar and Radar ..........................................................................................397
Juha Hyyppä, Mika Karjalainen, Xinlian Liang, Anttoni Jaakkola, Xiaowei Yu, Michael Wulder, Markus Hollaus,
Joanne C. White, Mikko Vastaranta, Kirsi Karila, Harri Kaartinen, Matti Vaaja, Ville Kankare, Antero Kukko,
Markus Holopainen, Hannu Hyyppä, and Masato Katoh
16 Forest Biophysical and Biochemical Properties from Hyperspectral and LiDAR Remote Sensing .......429
Gregory P. Asner, Susan L. Ustin, Philip A. Townsend, Roberta E. Martin, and K. Dana Chadwick
17 Optical Remote Sensing of Tree and Stand Heights ......................................................................................449
Sylvie Durrieu, Cédric Véga, Marc Bouvier, Frédéric Gosselin, Jean-Pierre Renaud, and Laurent Saint-André
Section Vi Biodiversity
18 Biodiversity of the World: A Study from Space ..............................................................................................489
Thomas W. Gillespie, Andrew Fricker, Chelsea Robinson, and Duccio Rocchini
19 Multiscale Habitat Mapping and Monitoring Using Satellite Data and Advanced Image
Analysis Techniques ...............................................................................................................................................505

Stefan Lang, Christina Corbane, Palma Blonda, Kyle Pipkins, and Michael Förster
Section Vii ecology
20 Ecological Characterization of Vegetation Using Multisensor Remote Sensing in the Solar
Reflective Spectrum................................................................................................................................................533
Conghe Song, Jing Ming Chen, Taehee Hwang, Alemu Gonsamo, Holly Croft, Quanfa Zhang,
Matthew Dannenberg, Yulong Zhang, Christopher Hakkenberg, and Juxiang Li
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Section Viii Land Use/Land cover
21 Land Cover Change Detection .............................................................................................................................579
John Rogan and Nathan Mietkiewicz
22 Land Use and Land Cover Mapping and Change Detection and Monitoring Using Radar
Remote Sensing ........................................................................................................................................................605
Zhixin Qi, Anthony Gar-On Yeh, and Xia Li
Section ix carbon
23 Global Carbon Budgets and the Role of Remote Sensing.............................................................................639
Richard A. Houghton
Section x Soils
24 Spectral Sensing from Ground to Space in Soil Science: State of the Art, Applications,
Potential, and Perspectives ...................................................................................................................................661
José A. M. Demattê, Cristine L. S. Morgan, Sabine Chabrillat, Rodnei Rizzo, Marston H. D. Franceschini,
Fabrício da S. Terra, Gustavo M. Vasques, and Johanna Wetterlind
25 Remote Sensing of Soil in the Optical Domains.............................................................................................733
E. Ben-Dor and José A.M. Demattê
Section xi Summary
26 Remote Sensing of Land Resources: Monitoring, Modeling, and Mapping Advances
over the Last 50 Years and a Vision for the Future ........................................................................................791
Prasad S. Thenkabail
Index ...........................................................................................................................................................833

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