Remote Sensing - Applications

This book intends to show the reader how remote sensing impacts other areas of science, technology, and human activity, by displaying a selected number of high quality contributions dealing with different remote sensing applications. Twenty two chapters have been carefully collected and distributed in four areas. The first part deals with land cover applications, and contains applications in vegetation indices, crop and pest monitoring, rainfall and fire relationship with vegetation, change detection, soil salinization, modeling water and heat regimes, catastrophe assessment and lava flow mapping. The second part contains contributions on climate and atmosphere, including carbon and water dynamics, ocean evaporation, and atmospheric aerosols and clouds. The third part presents oceans and cryosphere applications that include aquatic vegetation, oil spill assessment, coral reef habitat mapping, water source predictability from snow maps, cryosphere study, and maritime search and rescue. Last but not least, the last part presents contributions dealing with human activity, including population estimation, archaeology, urban growth, medicine and healthcare and military applications. Contents Section 1 Land Cover 1 Narrowband Vegetation Indices for Estimating Boreal Forest Leaf Area Index 2 Crop Disease and Pest Monitoring by Remote Sensing 3 Seasonal Variability of Vegetation and Its Relationship to Rainfall and Fire in the Brazilian Tropical Savanna 4 Land Cover Change Detection in Southern Brazil Through Orbital Imagery Classification Methods 5 Mapping Soil Salinization of Agricultural Coastal Areas in Southeast Spain 6 Remote Sensing Based Modeling of Water and Heat Regimes in a Vast Agricultural Region 7 High Resolution Remote Sensing Images Based Catastrophe Assessment Method 8 Automatic Mapping of the Lava Flows at Piton de la Fournaise Volcano, by Combining Thermal Data in Near and Visible Infrared Section 2 Climate and Atmosphere 9 Coupled Terrestrial Carbon and Water Dynamics in Terrestrial Ecosystems: Contributions of Remote Sensing 10 Oceanic Evaporation: Trends and Variability 11 Multi-Wavelength and Multi-Direction Remote Sensing of Atmospheric Aerosols and Clouds Section 3 Oceans and Cryosphere 12 Remote Sensing of Submerged Aquatic Vegetation 13 Remote Sensing and Environmental Sensitivity for Oil Spill in the Amazon, Brazil 14 Satellite Remote Sensing of Coral Reef Habitats Mapping in Shallow Waters at Banco Chinchorro Reefs, México: A Classification Approach 15 Predictability of Water Sources Using Snow Maps Extracted from the Modis Imagery in Central Alborz, Iran 16 Remote Sensing of Cryosphere 17 Remote Sensing Application in the Maritime Search and Rescue Section 4 Human Activity Assessment 18 Object-Based Image Analysis ofVHR Satellite Imagery for Population Estimation in Informal Settlement Kibera-Nairobi, Kenya 19 Remote Sensing Applications in Archaeological Research 20 The Mapping of the Urban Growth of Kinshasa (DRC) Through High Resolution Remote Sensing Between 1995 and 2005 21 Remote Sensing for Medical and Health Care Applications 22 Demonstration of Hyperspectral Image Exploitation for Military Applications with TOC BookMarkLinks Cover......Page 1 Remote Sensing - Applications......Page 2 ©......Page 3 Contents......Page 5 Preface......Page 9 Section 1 Land Cover......Page 12 1 Narrowband Vegetation Indices for Estimating Boreal Forest Leaf Area Index......Page 14 2 Crop Disease and Pest Monitoring by Remote Sensing......Page 42 3 Seasonal Variability of Vegetation and Its Relationship to Rainfall and Fire in the Brazilian Tropical Savanna......Page 88 4 Land Cover Change Detection in Southern Brazil Through Orbital Imagery Classification Methods......Page 110 5 Mapping Soil Salinization of Agricultural Coastal Areas in Southeast Spain......Page 128 6 Remote Sensing Based Modeling of Water and Heat Regimes in a Vast Agricultural Region......Page 152 7 High Resolution Remote Sensing Images Based Catastrophe Assessment Method......Page 188 8 Automatic Mapping of the Lava Flows at Piton de la Fournaise Volcano, by Combining Thermal Data in Near and Visible Infrared......Page 212 Section 2 Climate and Atmosphere......Page 232 9 Coupled Terrestrial Carbon and Water Dynamics in Terrestrial Ecosystems: Contributions of Remote Sensing......Page 234 10 Oceanic Evaporation: Trends and Variability......Page 272 11 Multi-Wavelength and Multi-Direction Remote Sensing of Atmospheric Aerosols and Clouds......Page 290 Section 3 Oceans and Cryosphere......Page 306 12 Remote Sensing of Submerged Aquatic Vegetation......Page 308 13 Remote Sensing and Environmental Sensitivity for Oil Spill in the Amazon, Brazil......Page 320 14 Satellite Remote Sensing of Coral Reef Habitats Mapping in Shallow Waters at Banco Chinchorro Reefs, México: A Classification Approach......Page 342 15 Predictability of Water Sources Using Snow Maps Extracted from the Modis Imagery in Central Alborz, Iran......Page 366 16 Remote Sensing of Cryosphere......Page 380 17 Remote Sensing Application in the Maritime Search and Rescue......Page 392 Section 4 Human Activity Assessment......Page 416 18 Object-Based Image Analysis of VHR Satellite Imagery for Population Estimation in Informal Settlement Kibera-Nairobi, Kenya......Page 418 19 Remote Sensing Applications in Archaeological Research......Page 446 20 The Mapping of the Urban Growth of Kinshasa (DRC) Through High Resolution Remote Sensing Between 1995 and 2005......Page 474 21 Remote Sensing for Medical and Health Care Applications......Page 490 22 Demonstration of Hyperspectral Image Exploitation for Military Applications......Page 504