Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere from Space

by Kokhanovsky, Alexander A.; De Leeuw, Gerrit

• ISBN13: 9783642104114
• ISBN10: 3642104118
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2017-10-13
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

Our planet faces many global environmental problems (i.e. warming and gradual disappearance of ice in Arctic). The only possible way to monitor all of these changes is through remote sensing from satellites. The objective of this book is to describe recent advances in satellite instrumentation and in the techniques for optical remote sensing of atmosphere, land and ocean, with a special focus on atmospheric remote sensing in the spectral range 350-2400nm. Thermal infrared remote sensing will be also be briefly touched upon in this book. The main focus will be on the physical foundations of remote sensing and the description of recent applications of optical remote sensing data in areas such as the monitoring of natural disasters (e.g. hurricanes and floods), desertification and environmental change, the monitoring of forest fires, atmospheric pollution and volcanic eruptions, and scrutiny of important events relating to global climate change such as the melting of ice sheets. The material for this book has been developed by the two authors while teaching courses and performing frontline research in optics, remote sensing and atmospheric science at various universities in the USA and Canada. Alex Kokhanovsky is the author of several previous Praxis books and is editor of the Light Scattering Reviews volumes.