Front Cover -- Advanced Remote Sensing: Terrestrial Information Extraction and Applications -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- List of Contributors -- Chapter 1 - A Systematic View of Remote Sensing -- 1.1. INTRODUCTION -- 1.2. PLATFORM AND SENSOR SYSTEM -- 1.3. DATA TRANSMISSION AND GROUND RECEIVING SYSTEM -- 1.4. DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM -- 1.5. MAPPING CATEGORY VARIABLES -- 1.6. ESTIMATING QUANTITATIVE VARIABLES -- 1.7. PRODUCTION, ARCHIVING, AND DISTRIBUTION OF HIGH-LEVEL PRODUCTS -- 1.8. PRODUCT VALIDATION -- 1.9. REMOTE SENSING APPLICATIONS -- 1.10. CONCLUDING REMARKS -- References -- Chapter 2 - Geometric Processing and Positioning Techniques -- 2.1. OVERVIEW -- 2.2. GEOMETRIC CALIBRATION OF SATELLITE REMOTE-SENSING IMAGERY -- 2.3. GEOMETRIC RECTIFICATION OF A SINGLE REMOTE-SENSING IMAGE -- 2.4. GEOMETRIC REGISTRATION OF SATELLITE REMOTE-SENSING IMAGERY -- 2.5. CONSTRUCTION OF A DIGITAL TERRAIN MODEL -- 2.6. ORTHOIMAGE PRODUCTION -- 2.7. SUMMARY -- References -- Chapter 3 - Compositing, Smoothing, and Gap-Filling Techniques -- 3.1. MULTITEMPORAL COMPOSITING TECHNIQUES -- 3.2. TIME-SERIES DATA SMOOTHING AND GAP-FILLING -- 3.3. SUMMARY -- References -- Chapter 4 - Data Fusion -- 4.1. AN OVERVIEW OF REMOTE-SENSING DATA FUSION -- 4.2. METHODS FOR PIXEL-LEVEL REMOTE-SENSING DATA FUSION -- 4.3. GENERALIZED MODEL FOR PIXEL-LEVEL REMOTE-SENSING DATA FUSION -- 4.4. HETEROGENEOUS DATA SOURCE FUSION TECHNIQUE -- 4.5. SUMMARY -- References -- Chapter 5 - Atmospheric Correction of Optical Imagery -- 5.1. ATMOSPHERIC EFFECTS -- 5.2. CORRECTING THE AEROSOL IMPACT -- 5.3. CORRECTING THE IMPACT OF WATER VAPOR -- 5.4. CORRECTING THE IMPACTS OF OTHER CONSTITUENTS -- 5.5. COMMONLY USED MODELS AND SOFTWARE -- 5.6. CONCLUSIONS -- References -- Chapter 6 - Solar Radiation -- 6.1. BASIC CONCEPTS.

6.2. OBSERVATION NETWORK OF LAND-SURFACE RADIATION -- 6.3. SURFACE RADIATION ESTIMATION BASED ON SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING AND GLOBAL CIRCULATION MODEL (GCM) -- 6.4. SUMMARY AND DISCUSSIONS -- NOMENCLATURE -- References -- Chapter 7 - Broadband Albedo -- 7.1. LAND-SURFACE BI-DIRECTIONAL REFLECTANCE MODELING -- 7.2. THE ALBEDO ESTIMATION METHOD BASED ON BI-DIRECTIONAL REFLECTANCE MODEL INVERSION -- 7.3. THE DIRECT ESTIMATION OF SURFACE ALBEDO -- 7.4. JOINT OPTIMIZATION OF SURFACE-ATMOSPHERIC PARAMETERS -- 7.5. GLOBAL LAND-SURFACE ALBEDO PRODUCTS -- 7.6. TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL ANALYSIS OF THE GLOBAL LAND SURFACE ALBEDO -- 7.7. PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS -- References -- Chapter 8 - Land-Surface Temperature and Thermal Infrared Emissivity -- 8.1. THE DEFINITIONS OF LST AND LSE -- 8.2. THE ESTIMATION OF AVERAGE LST -- 8.3. LSE ESTIMATION METHODS -- 8.4. LSE AND LST PRODUCTS -- 8.5. SUMMARY -- ACRONYMS -- References -- Chapter 9 - Surface Longwave Radiation Budget -- 9.1. SURFACE DOWNWARD LONGWAVE RADIATION -- 9.2. SURFACE UPWELLING LONGWAVE RADIATION -- 9.3. SURFACE NET LONGWAVE RADIATION -- 9.4. GROUND VALIDATION NETWORKS AND EXISTING SATELLITE-DERIVED SURFACE LONGWAVE RADIATION BUDGET PRODUCTS -- 9.5. SUMMARY -- References -- Chapter 10 - Canopy Biochemical Characteristics -- 10.1. OVERVIEW OF PRINCIPLES AND METHODS -- 10.2. EMPIRICAL AND SEMI-EMPIRICAL METHODS -- 10.3. EXTRACTION USING PHYSICAL MODELS -- 10.4. CONCLUSIONS AND DISCUSSIONS -- References -- Chpater 11 - Leaf Area Index -- 11.1. DEFINITIONS -- 11.2. STATISTICAL METHODS -- 11.3. CANOPY MODEL INVERSION METHODS -- 11.4. DATA ASSIMILATION METHODS -- 11.5. GLOBAL AND REGIONAL LAI PRODUCTS -- 11.6. LAI CLIMATOLOGY -- 11.7. SUMMARY -- References -- Chapter 12 - Fraction of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation by Green Vegetation -- 12.1. DEFINITIONS -- 12.2. FAPAR FIELD MEASUREMENTS.

12.3. MONTE CARLO (MC) SIMULATION -- 12.4. EMPIRICAL RETRIEVAL METHODS -- 12.5. POPULAR REMOTE-SENSING FAPAR PRODUCTS -- 12.6. FAPAR RETRIEVAL METHOD BASED ON THE HYBRID VEGETATION SPECTRAL MODEL -- 12.7. CASE STUDY -- 12.8. SUMMARY -- References -- Chapter 13 - Fractional Vegetation Cover -- 13.1. INTRODUCTION -- 13.2. FIELD MEASUREMENTS OF FVC -- 13.3. THE REMOTE-SENSING RETRIEVAL -- 13.4. CURRENT REMOTE-SENSING PRODUCTS -- 13.5. CHALLENGES AND PROSPECTS FOR FVC ESTIMATION -- References -- Chapter 14 - Vegetation Height and Vertical Structure -- 14.1. FIELD MEASUREMENT OF VEGETATION HEIGHT AND VERTICAL STRUCTURE -- 14.2. SMALL-FOOTPRINT LIDAR DATA -- 14.3. LARGE-FOOTPRINT LIDAR DATA -- 14.4. VEGETATION CANOPY HEIGHT AND VERTICAL STRUCTURE FROM SAR DATA -- 14.5. FUTURE PERSPECTIVES -- References -- Chapter 15 - Above-ground Biomass -- 15.1. INTRODUCTION -- 15.2. ALLOCATION METHODS -- 15.3. OPTICAL REMOTE-SENSING METHODS -- 15.4. ACTIVE REMOTE-SENSING METHODS -- 15.5. METHODS FOR BIOMASS ESTIMATION FROM MULTISOURCE DATA -- 15.6. FUTURE PERSPECTIVE -- References -- Chapter 16 - Vegetation Production in Terrestrial Ecosystems -- 16.1. CONCEPT OF VEGETATION PRODUCTION -- 16.2. GROUND OBSERVATION OF VEGETATION PRODUCTION -- 16.3. STATISTICAL MODELS BASED ON THE VEGETATION INDEX -- 16.4. LIGHT-USE EFFICIENCY MODEL BASED ON REMOTE-SENSING DATA -- 16.5. DYNAMIC GLOBAL VEGETATION MODELS (DGVMS) -- 16.6. TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION PATTERN OF GLOBAL VEGETATION PRODUCTIVITY -- 16.7. SUMMARY -- References -- Chapter 17 - Precipitation -- 17.1. SURFACE MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES -- 17.2. ESTIMATION FROM SATELLITE DATA -- 17.3. GLOBAL AND REGIONAL DATASETS -- 17.4. GLOBAL PRECIPITATION CLIMATOLOGY -- 17.5. FUTURE PERSPECTIVES -- References -- Chapter 18 - Terrestrial Evapotranspiration -- 18.1. INTRODUCTION -- 18.2. BASIC THEORIES OF λE.

18.3. SATELLITE λE ALGORITHMS -- 18.4. OBSERVATIONS FOR ALGORITHM CALIBRATION AND VALIDATION -- 18.5. CONCLUSIONS AND DISCUSSION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- References -- Chapter 19 - Soil Moisture Content -- 19.1. INTRODUCTION -- 19.2. CONVENTIONAL SMC MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES -- 19.3. MICROWAVE REMOTE-SENSING METHODS -- 19.4. OPTICAL AND THERMAL-IR REMOTE-SENSING METHODS -- 19.5. ESTIMATION OF SOIL MOISTURE PROFILE -- 19.6. COMPARISON OF DIFFERENT REMOTE-SENSING TECHNIQUES -- 19.7. AVAILABLE DATASETS AND SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIATIONS -- 19.8. CONCLUSIONS -- References -- Chapter 20 - Snow Water Equivalence -- 20.1. PASSIVE MICROWAVE REMOTE-SENSING TECHNIQUES -- 20.2. ACTIVE MICROWAVE REMOTE-SENSING TECHNIQUES -- 20.3. VISIBLE BAND REMOTE-SENSING TECHNIQUES -- 20.4. SUMMARY -- References -- Chapter 21 - Water Storage -- 21.1. WATER-BALANCE-BASED ESTIMATION -- 21.2. SURFACE-PARAMETER-BASED ESTIMATION -- 21.3. GRACE-BASED ESTIMATION -- 21.4. DISCUSSION AND FUTURE PROSPECTS -- References -- Chapter 22 - High-level Land Product Integration Methods -- 22.1. INTRODUCTION -- 22.2. GEOSTATISTICAL METHODS -- 22.3. MULTIRESOLUTION TREE -- 22.4. EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION (EOF)-BASED METHODS -- 22.5. SUMMARY -- References -- Chapter 23 - Production and Data Management Systems -- 23.1. OVERVIEW OF THE PRODUCTION AND DATABASE MANAGEMENT -- 23.2. SYSTEM HARDWARE -- 23.3. PRODUCTION SYSTEM -- 23.4. DATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM -- 23.5. SUMMARY -- References -- Chapter 24 - Land Cover and Land use Changes -- 24.1. INTRODUCTION -- 24.2. URBANIZATION -- 24.3. INTENSIVE AGRICULTURE -- 24.4. FOREST COVER CHANGES -- 24.5. CONCLUSIONS -- References -- Index.