Thermal Infrared Remote Sensing: Sensors, Methods, Applications

✍ Scribed by Claudia Kuenzer, Stefan Dech (auth.), Claudia Kuenzer, Stefan Dech (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 546
• Series: Remote Sensing and Digital Image Processing 17
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the state of the art in the field of thermal infrared remote sensing. Temperature is one of the most important physical environmental variables monitored by earth observing remote sensing systems. Temperature ranges define the boundaries of habitats on our planet. Thermal hazards endanger our resources and well-being. In this book renowned international experts have contributed chapters on currently available thermal sensors as well as innovative plans for future missions. Further chapters discuss the underlying physics and image processing techniques for analyzing thermal data. Ground-breaking chapters on applications present a wide variety of case studies leading to a deepened understanding of land and sea surface temperature dynamics, urban heat island effects, forest fires, volcanic eruption precursors, underground coal fires, geothermal systems, soil moisture variability, and temperature-based mineral discrimination. ‘Thermal Infrared Remote Sensing: Sensors, Methods, Applications’ is unique because of the large field it spans, the potentials it reveals, and the detail it provides.

This book is an indispensable volume for scientists, lecturers, and decision makers interested in thermal infrared technology, methods, and applications.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Theoretical Background of Thermal Infrared Remote Sensing....Pages 1-26
Geometric Calibration of Thermographic Cameras....Pages 27-42
Thermal Infrared Spectroscopy in the Laboratory and Field in Support of Land Surface Remote Sensing....Pages 43-67
Challenges and Opportunities for UAV-Borne Thermal Imaging....Pages 69-92
NASA’s Hyperspectral Thermal Emission Spectrometer (HyTES)....Pages 93-115
NASA’s Hyperspectral Infrared Imager (HyspIRI)....Pages 117-130
Spaceborne Thermal Infrared Observation – An Overview of Most Frequently Used Sensors for Applied Research....Pages 131-148
Thermal Remote Sensing with Small Satellites: BIRD, TET and the Next Generation BIROS....Pages 149-176
Landsat and Thermal Infrared Imaging....Pages 177-196
Review of High Resolution Thermal Infrared Applications and Requirements: The Fuegosat Synthesis Study....Pages 197-214
Cross-Comparison of Daily Land Surface Temperature Products from NOAA-AVHRR and MODIS....Pages 215-231
Comparison of the Thermal Sensors of SEVIRI and MODIS for LST Mapping....Pages 233-252
A Water Vapor Scaling (WVS) Method for Improving Atmospheric Correction of Thermal Infrared (TIR) Data....Pages 253-265
Time Series Corrections and Analyses in Thermal Remote Sensing....Pages 267-285
Thermal Remote Sensing of Sea Surface Temperature....Pages 287-313
Soil Moisture from Thermal Infrared Satellite Data: Synergies with Microwave Data....Pages 315-330
Application of the Apparent Thermal Inertia Concept for Soil Moisture Estimation in Agricultural Areas....Pages 331-346
Thermal Remote Sensing of Active Vegetation Fires and Biomass Burning Events....Pages 347-390
Analysis of Lava Flow Effusion Rate Using High Spatial Resolution Infrared Data....Pages 391-408
Thermal Analysis of Volcanoes Based on 10 Years of ASTER Data on Mt. Etna....Pages 409-428
Thermal Infrared Remote Sensing of Surface and Underground Coal Fires....Pages 429-451
Thermal Infrared Remote Sensing of Geothermal Systems....Pages 453-473
Analysis of Surface Thermal Patterns in Relation to Urban Structure Types: A Case Study for the City of Munich....Pages 475-493
Mineral Mapping with Airborne Hyperspectral Thermal Infrared Remote Sensing at Cuprite, Nevada, USA....Pages 495-514
Validation of Thermal Infrared (TIR) Emissivity Spectra Using Pseudo-invariant Sand Dune Sites....Pages 515-527
Back Matter....Pages 529-537

✦ Subjects

Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry;Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning;Environmental Monitoring/Analysis;Earth Sciences, general