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  title info:
    title: Mediterranean Landsurface Processes Assessed From Space
  name:
    name part: Bolle, Hans-Jürgen.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Eckardt, Matthias.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Koslowsky, Dirk.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Maselli, Fabio.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Miralles, Joaquín Meliá.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Menenti, Massimo.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Olesen, Folke-Sören.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Petkov, Ljiljana.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Rasool, Ichtiaque.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Griend, Adriaan A. Van de.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2006
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXVII, 760 p. online resource.
  abstract: 1. 1 Space View and Ground Observations 1 1. 2 Mediterranean Climatic Environment 2 1. 3 Processes at Surfaces 10 1. 3. 1 Deforestation and Land-use Changes 10 1. 3. 2 Water Related Problems 16 1. 3. 3 Fire, Grazing, and Land Degradation 19 1. 3. 4 Drought, Floods, Frost, and Desertification 21 1. 3. 5 Coupling Between Surface and Atmosphere: The Role of the Atmospheric Boundary Layer 25 1. 4 Role and Capabilities of Measurements Made From Space 30 1. 4. 1 Research Programmes 30 1. 4. 2 Expected Information 32 1. 4. 3 Research Strategy 33 1. 4. 4 Observation of Changes in Heterogeneous Landscapes: Spatial and Temporal Scales 35 1. 4. 5 Land-surface Change Indicators Observable from Space 36 Spectral Characteristics of Vegetation and Soils (36); Responses of Remote Sensing Signals to Changes of Land-surface Properties (40) 1. 5 About this Book 48 Chapter 2 Processing and Archiving of Satellite and Ancillary Data 51 2. 1 Introduction 51 2. 2 The Remote Sensing Data Base 55 2. 2. 1 Satellite Instruments 55 The NOAA Observing System (55); Meteosat (57); Nimbus-7 (59); Landsat (59); SPOT (61); DMSP (62); ERS-1 and ERS-2 (62); TRMM (63); Terra (64); Envisat (65); Aqua (66) 2. 2. 2 Aircraft Instruments 66 The Use of Aircraft for Land-surface Process Studies (66); AVIRIS (67); TMS (68); AIRSAR (68); DIAL (69) 2. 3 Reception, Acquisition and Availability of Satellite Data 70 2. 3.
  table of contents: Processing and Archiving of Satellite and Ancillary Data -- Radiative Processes of the Surface- Atmosphere System -- Primary Level Products -- Higher Level Variables and Their Validation -- From Research to Application.
  note: edited by Hans-Jürgen Bolle, Matthias Eckardt, Dirk Koslowsky, Fabio Maselli, Joaquín Meliá Miralles, Massimo Menenti, Folke-Sören Olesen, Ljiljana Petkov, Ichtiaque Rasool, Adriaan A. Van de Griend.
  subject:
    topic: Geography
  subject:
    topic: Climate change
  subject:
    topic: Geophysics
  subject:
    topic: Geographical information systems
  subject:
    topic: Space sciences
  subject:
    topic: Ecotoxicology
  subject:
    topic: Geography
  subject:
    topic: Geographical Information Systems/Cartography
  subject:
    topic: Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts
  subject:
    topic: Geophysics/Geodesy
  subject:
    topic: Ecotoxicology
  subject:
    topic: Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences
  classification: GA1-1776
  classification: 910.285
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Regional Climate Studies
  identifier: 9783540453109
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