Quantitative Remote Sensing of Land Surfaces (eBook)

SHUNLIN LIANG, PhD, is an associate professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Maryland, where he teaches courses in remote sensing, quantitative spatial analysis, and computer cartography. He is the Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing and the coeditor of Geographic Information Science.

Preface xv

Acronyms xix

Chapter 1 Introduction 1

Chapter 2 Atmospheric Shortwave Radiative Transfer Modeling 25

Chapter 3 Canopy Reflectance Modeling 76

Chapter 4 Soil and Snow Reflectance Modeling 143

Chapter 5 Satellite Sensor Radiometric Calibration 178

Chapter 6 Atmospheric Correction of Optical Imagery 196

Chapter 7 Topographic Correction Methods 231

Chapter 8 Estimation of Land Surface Biophysical variables 246

Chapter 9 Estimation of Surface Radiation Budget: I. Broadband Albedo 310

Chapter 10 Estimation of Surface Radiation Budget: II. Longwave 345

Chapter 11 Four-Dimensional Data Assimilation 398

Chapter 12 Validation and Spatial Scaling 431

Chapter 13 Applications 472

Appendix CD-ROM Content 525

Index 528

"...a well-researched book that the environmental
modelling community will find an indispensable reference."
(Progress in Physical Geography, Vol.29, No.1, 2005)

"...extremely well produced, with good layout, clear
type, a useful list of acronyms and a comprehensive
index...timely and refreshing..." (The Photogrammetric
Record, December 2004)

"This volume a very useful and practical addition to the
literature on remote sensing." (E-STREAMS, August
2004)