Information Technologies for Remote Monitoring of the Environment

• Main Authors: Krapivin, Vladimir (Author), Shutko, Anatolij M. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Series: Springer Praxis Books
• Subjects: Environment.; Energy.; Geographical information systems.; Remote sensing.; Ecology.; Environmental Monitoring/Analysis.; Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry.; Geographical Information Systems/Cartography.; Energy, general.

The key novelty of this book is first of all in the successful attempt to conduct jointly modeling of environment in terms of physical environment related parameters and measuring similar parameters by means of multispectral remote sensing, primarily by means of passive microwave remote sensing tech...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Towards the information technology for environmental monitoring
• 2. Survivability and biocomplexity
• 3. The NSS model as the GIMS component
• 4. The GIMS-based study of ocean and sea ecosystems
• 5. Decision making procedure in the GIMS
• 6. Passive remote technologe and data processing algorithms
• 7. GIMS- based method for vegetation microwave monitoring
• 8. Remote sensing instruments and carrying platforms that realize the GIMS- technology.