Research Catalog

Title

Environmental remote sensing from regional to global scales / edited by Giles M. Foody and Paul J. Curran.

Publication

Chichester ; New York : Wiley, [1994], ©1994.

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Additional Authors

• Foody, Giles M.
• Curran, Paul J., 1955-

Description

xii, 238 pages : illustrations (some color); 25 cm

Subject

• Environmental monitoring > Remote sensing

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 1. Environmental Issues at Regional to Global Scales / Paul J. Curran and Giles M. Foody -- 2. Remote Sensing and Terrestrial Global Environment Research - The TIGER Programme / S.A. Briggs -- 3. Explaining and Monitoring Land Cover Dynamics in Drylands Using Multi-Temporal Analysis of NOAA AVHRR Imagery / A.C. Millington, J. Wellens, J.J. Settle and R.J. Saull -- 4. The Use of Remote Sensing to Characterise the Regenerative States of Tropical Forests / Paul J. Curran and Giles M. Foody -- 5. Global Land Cover: Comparison of Ground-Based Data Sets to Classifications With AVHRR Data / R.S. DeFries and J.R.G. Townshend -- 6. Snow Monitoring in the United Kingdom Using NOAA AVHRR Imagery / Richard M. Lucas and Andrew R. Harrison -- 7. A Near-Real-Time Heat Source Monitoring System Using NOAA Polar Orbiting Meteorological Satellites / Geoffrey M. Smith and Robin A. Vaughan -- 8. Per-Zone Classification of Urban Land Cover for Urban Population Estimation / Christiane Weber.
• 9. Attempts to Drive Ecosystem Simulation Models at Local to Regional Scales / Paul J. Curran -- 10. Remote Sensing and the Determination of Geophysical Parameters for Input to Global Models / Arthur P. Cracknell -- 11. Environmental Monitoring Using Multiple-View-Angle (MVA) Remotely-Sensed Data / M.J. Barnsley -- 12. Earth Observation Data - Or Information? / Paul M. Mather -- 13. Spatial Data: Data Types, Data Applications and Reasons for Partial Adoption and Non-Integration / J.A. Allan -- 14. Scale and Environmental Remote Sensing / Giles M. Foody and Paul J. Curran.

ISBN

• 1852932678
• 0471944343

LCCN

93005434

OCLC

• 28420151
• ocm28420151

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries