Advances in Earth Observation of Global Change

Preface. Contributors. 1. The role of small satellite missions in global change studies; Rainer Sandau and Klaus Briess 2. Spatial pattern analysis of water-driven land cover change in Aridzone, Northwest of China; Qimig Zhou and Bo Sun 3. A spatial logistic regression model for simulating land use patterns: a case study of the Shiraz Metropolitan Area of Iran; Amin Tayyebi et al. 4. Abu Dhabi Island: analysis of development and vegetation change using remote sensing (1972-2000); Abdulhakim M. Abdi and Anand Nandipati 5. Remote sensing of coastal water quality in the Baltic Sea using MERIS; Andreas Neumann, Harald Krawczyk and Stefan Riha 6. Remote sensing for water quality monitoring in Apalachicola Bay, USA; Wenrui Huang, Shuisen Chen and Xiaojun Yang 7. Extracting cryospheric information over lowlands from L-band polarimetric SAR data; Nicolas Longépé et al 8. Variability of Northern hemisphere spring snowmelt dates using the AVHRR polar pathfinder snow cover during 1982-2004; Hongxu Zhao and Richard Fernandes 9. MODIS snow monitoring over the Tibetan Plateau; Li Xu 10. The global geodetic observing system (GGOS): detecting the fingerprints of global change in geodetic quantities; Hans-Peter Plag et al. 11. Monitoring radial tectonic motions of continental borders around the Atlantic Ocean and regional sea level changes by space geodetic observations; Zhigen Yang and Fengchun Shu 12. GNSS activities for natural disaster monitoring and climate change detection at GFZ - an overview; Junping Chen et al 13. Satellite imagery for landslide mapping in an earthquake-struck area; Xiaojun Yang 14. Relations between human factors and global fire activity; Emilio Chuvieco and Chris Justice 15. The use of remote sensing data and meteorological information for food security monitoring, examples in East Africa; Michel Massart et al16. Application of an early warning system for floods; Adriana Albanese et al 17. L-band and C-band combined interferometric monitoring of the

From the reviews:

"This collection of conference papers surveys the rapidly expanding area of research on observing global change in the Earth system. Remote-sensing applications to land use, coastal and marine ecosystems, snow and ice, and natural hazards, as well as geodetic and geospatial data processing techniques employed in global change research, are surveyed in 19 chapters by an international group of more than 60 authors. ... recommend this book to researchers in remote sensing and global change studies. There is valuable, reasonably current research presented here." (John A. Knox, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, July, 2012)