Earth System Monitoring Selected Entries from the Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Orcutt, John (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Subjects: Physics.; Physical geography.; Remote sensing.; Geophysics.; Geophysics and Environmental Physics.; Earth System Sciences.; Environmental Monitoring/Analysis.; Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry.

Modern Earth System Monitoring represents a fundamental change in the way scientists study the Earth System.  In Oceanography, for the past two centuries, ships have provided the platforms for observing.  Expeditions on the continents and Earth’s poles are land-based analogues. Fundamental understan...