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Remote sensing is used in some way by all earth and atmospheric scientists. This book provides a unique resource to all aspects of remote sensing for both the expert and nonexpert. Organized as a dictionary, it contains over 700 alphabetically-arranged and cross-referenced entries on how remote sensing works, what kinds of data are available, and the large number of satellites and instruments from which the information is obtained. As well as short technical definitions, the book also includes longer essays and reviews to give a complete overview of the subject. It will be essential for researchers and research managers at all levels using spaceborne remote sensing methods to obtain information about the earth's land, sea, ice and atmosphere. It will also serve as a valuable addition to existing textbooks for undergraduate and graduate students in geography, environmental and earth science courses that include an element of remote sensing.
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The Remote Sensing Data Book GARETH R E E S
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
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First published 1999 Printed in the United Kingdom at the University Press, Cambridge Typeset in 9/12pt Times [wv] A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication data
Rees, Gareth (William Gareth), 1959The remote sensing data book / Gareth Rees. p. cm. ISBN 0 521 48040 X 1. Remote sensing - Handbooks, manuals, etc. 2. Remote sensing Dictionaries. I. Title. G70.4.R435 1999 621.36’78-dc21 98-30283 CIP ISBN 0 521 48040 X hardback
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Contributors
Adigun A. Abiodun, United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs, Vienna, Austria Phillip A. Arkin, NOAA National Center for Environmental Prediction, Washington, DC 20233-9910, USA Robert M. Atlas, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA Arthur P. Cracknell, University of Dundee, UK Paul J. Curran, Department of Geography, University of Southampton, UK Donna Demac, Communications Attorney, New York, USA James Foster, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA Adrian K. Fung, University of Texas at Arlington Wave Scattering Research Center, USA James R. Heirtzler, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA Kendal McGuffie, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Peter J. Mouginis-Mark, Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, University of Hawaii, USA W. Gareth Rees, Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, UK Irwin Scollar, Universitat Koln, Germany John Turner, British Antarctic Survey, UK Fawwaz T. Ulaby, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, USA
Acknowledgements
The editor gratefully acknowledges the work of the contributors to this book, without which it could not have been written. He also thanks the following people who provided a critical review of the manuscript: Bernard Devereux, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge; Christopher S. M. Doake, British Antarctic Survey; David R. Wilson, University of Cambridge Committee for Aerial Photography; Robin G. Williams, Department of Atmospheric Science, University of Alabama in