Land Surface Remote Sensing in Agriculture and Forest

✍ Scribed by Nicolas Baghdadi, Mehrez Zribi

• Publisher: ISTE Press - Elsevier
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 479
• Series: Remote sensing observations of continental surfaces set
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The environmental and economic importance of monitoring forests and agricultural resources has allowed remote sensing to be increasingly in the development of products and services responding to user needs. This volume presents the main applications in remote sensing for agriculture and forestry, including the primary soil properties, the estimation of the vegetation’s biophysical variables, methods for mapping land cover, the contribution of remote sensing for crop and water monitoring, and the estimation of the forest cover properties (cover dynamic, height, biomass). This book, part of a set of six volumes, has been produced by scientists who are internationally renowned in their fields. It is addressed to students (engineers, Masters, PhD), engineers and scientists, specialists in remote sensing applied to agriculture and forestry. Through this pedagogical work, the authors contribute to breaking down the barriers that hinder the use of radar imaging techniques.

• Provides clear and concise descriptions of modern remote sensing methods
• Explores the most current remote sensing techniques with physical aspects of the measurement (theory) and their applications
• Provides chapters on physical principles, measurement, and data processing for each technique described
• Describes optical remote sensing technology, including a description of acquisition systems and measurement corrections to be made

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Front matter,Copyright,Foreword,Acronyms,IntroductionEntitled to full text1 - Mapping of Primary Soil Properties Using Optical Visible and Near Infrared (Vis-NIR) Remote Sensing, Pages 1-35
2 - Estimation of Biophysical Variables from Satellite Observations, Pages 37-80
3 - Land Cover Mapping from Optical Images, Pages 81-111
4 - Contribution of Remote Sensing for Crop and Water Monitoring, Pages 113-177
5 - Contribution of Remote Sensing to Crop Monitoring in Tropical Zones, Pages 179-220
6 - Monitoring of Agricultural Landscapes Using Remote Sensing Data, Pages 221-247
7 - Applications of Multispectral Optical Satellite Imaging in Forestry, Pages 249-329
8 - Characterization of Forests with LiDAR Technology, Pages 331-362
9 - Forest Biomass From Radar Remote Sensing, Pages 363-425
Glossary, Pages 427-444
List of Authors, Pages 445-447
Index, Pages 449-452
Scientific Committee, Pages 453-454

✦ Subjects

Forests and forestry;Remote sensing;Agriculture;Remote sensing