REMOTE SENSING FOR ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND CHANGE DETECTION Edited by Manfred Owe & Christopher Neale

IAHS Publ. 316 (2007) ISBN 978-1-901502-24-4, 288 + viii pp. Price Ł55.00

Remote sensing technology has evolved into an integral research tool for the natural sciences. Disciplines such as climatology, hydrology, and studies of the terrestrial biosphere have all developed a strong remote sensing analysis component. Moreover, remote sensing has facilitated our understanding of the environment and its many processes over a broad range of spatial and temporal scales. This is an important part of hydrological research, especially in water resources management, environmental monitoring and prediction, and the detection of environmental change. This publication is a compilation of papers that were presented at the IAHS Symposium on Remote Sensing for Environmental Monitoring and Change Detection organised by the IAHS International Commission on Remote Sensing, in Perugia, 2007. The 30 contributions cover approaches using the thermal infrared, microwave and radar; studies monitoring vegetation, snow and ice, and evapotranspiration; and the combination of remote sensing techniques and GIS for hydrological applications.

Contents

Preface by Manfred Owe & Christopher Neale, iii
 

1. Thermal Infrared
    
   • Spatial distribution and structure of remotely sensed surface water content estimated by a thermal inertia approach
     Antonio Coppola, Angelo Basile, Massimo Menenti, Maurizio Buonanno, Jerome Colin, Roberto De Mascellis, Marco Esposito, Ugo Lazzaro, Vincenzo Magliulo & Piero Manna, 3
   • Satellite observations of the land surface emissivity in the 8–12 µm window: effect of soil moisture
     Thomas Schmugge, Kenta Ogawa & Patricia De Rosnay, 16
   • Infrared measurements to evaluate groundwater discharge in the coastal zone
     Makoto Taniguchi, Tomotoshi Ishitobi & Shigeru Kasahara, 22
   • Vegetation change detection using thermal band emissivities over Jornada, New Mexico, USA
     Andrew N. French, Thomas J. Schmugge, Jerry C. Ritchie, Ann Hsu, Frederic Jacob & Kenta Ogawa, 27
   
    
2. Microwave and Radar
    
   • Detecting Bright Band using AI techniques in radar hydrology
     Daniel R. Mcculloch, Jonathan Lawry, Miguel A. Rico-Ramirez & Ian D. Cluckie, 37
   • Spatial and seasonal patterns of diurnal differences in ERS Scatterometer soil moisture data in the Volta Basin, West Africa
     Jan Friesen, Hessel C. Winsemius, Rob Beck, Klaus Scipal, Wolfgang Wagner & Nick van de Giesen, 47
   • Contribution of Earth observation data supplied by the new satellite sensors in flood risk mapping
     Gheorghe Stancalie, Vasile Craciunescu & Anisoara Irimescu, 56
   • Soil moisture retrieval over the Mackenzie River basin using AMSR-E 6.9 GHz brightness temperature
     Naira Chaouch, Robert Leconte, Ramata Magagi & Marouane Temimi, 64
   • Probabilistic estimation of precipitation combining geostationary and TRMM satellite data
     Carlo De Marchi, Aris Georgakakos & Christa Peters-Lidard, 70
   • Sequential assimilation of remotely sensed water stages in flood inundation models
     Patrick Matgen, Guy Schumann, Florian Pappenberger & Laurent Pfisterz, 78
   
    
3. Vegetation Monitoring
    
   • Change detection and hydrological implications in the Lower Ogun flood plain, SW Nigeria
     Shakirudeen Odunuga & Lekan Oyebande, 91
   • Mapping and monitoring wetlands using airborne multispectral imagery
     Christopher M. U. Neale, Dennis Wenger, Harikishan Jayanthi & Fayek Farag, 100
   • Mapping land degradation and forest resource loss from fused Landsat TM and Nigeriasat-1 images in some parts of the southwest coast of Nigeria
     Mayowa Fasona, Ademola Omojola & Anthonia Onyeahialam, 110
   • Study of vegetation evolution in Sicily using time series analysis of remote sensing and climatic data
     Enrico Bono, Fulvio Capodici, Giuseppe Ciraolo, Goffredo La Loggia, Antonino Maltese & Leonardo V. Noto, 119
   • A comparative approach for the retrieval of leaf area index from Earth observation data
     Francesco Vuolo, Guido D’urso & Luigi Dini, 131
   • Effects of climate and land cover on the relationship of satellite derived vegetation water content and greenness
     Seungbum Hong, Venkat Lakshmi & Eric Small, 140
   
    
4. Snow and Ice
    
   • Remote sensing monitoring of the long-term regime of the Pamirs glaciers
     Vladimir Konovalov & Lev Desinov, 149
   • Calibration/validation of satellite derived snow products with in situ data over the mountainous eastern part of Turkey
     Akyurek Zuhal, Sensoy Aynur, Sorman Arda & Sorman A. Unal, 157
   • Validating gravimetry measurements in Canada with a continental-scale hydrological database
     Caterina Valeo, W. Van Der Wal & S. Marshall, 169
   
    
5. Evapotranspiration
    
   • MODIS-based estimates of the regional evapotranspiration
     Ronglin Tang, Jun Xia, Xiang Zhang & Xiongrui Yin, 181
   • Estimating evapotranspiration of arid regions using remotely-sensed data Seifeldin
     H. Abdalla & Christopher Neale, 190
   • Assessing crop water deficit using MODIS data during winter wheat growing period along the lower reaches of the Yellow River, China
     Yonghong Yi, Dawen Yang, Huimin Lei & Taikan Oki, 199
   • Evaluating actual evapotranspiration by means of multi-platform remote sensing data: a case study in Sicily
     Mario Minacapilli, Giuseppe Ciraolo, Guido D’Urso & Carmelo Cammalleri, 207
   • Remote sensing estimation of land surface evapotranspiration of typical river basins in China
     Che-Sheng Zhan, Jun Xia, Zhi Chen, Zhao-Liang Li & Zong-Xue Xu, 220
   • Towards a continuous monitoring of evapotranspiration based on MSG data
     Françoise Gellens-Meulenberghs, Alirio Arboleda & Nicolas Ghilain, 228
   
    
6. Hydrology and GIS Applications
    
   • Comparison of ASTER, MASTER, and ground-based hyperspectral reflectance measurements
     Jerry C. Ritchie, Thomas J. Schmugge, Ann Hsu & Albert Rango, 237
   • Application of GIS in land-use studies in the Osse-Ossiomo River basin, Nigeria
     Catherine I. Ikhile & Lekan Oyebande, 245
   • Responses to land use change and water resources in the Tarim River watershed of Central Asia
     Yan Dou & Xi Chen, 252
   • Evaluating urbanization and its impacts on local hydrological environment change in Shijiazhuang, China, using remote sensing
     Jie-Ying Xiao, Chun-Ping Chang, Jing-Feng Ge & Yan-Jun Shen, 261
   • Complex approaches for the study of landslide areas in mountainous pilot areas of Uzbekistan using remote sensing data and GIS techniques
     Pulat Mavlyanov, Diana zakhidova & Akbar Abdurakhmanov, 269

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