Polar Remote Sensing
Title | Polar Remote Sensing PDF eBook |
Author | Dan Lubin |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | 868 |
Release | 2006-08-31 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 3540307850 |
The polar regions, perhaps more than any other places on Earth, give the geophysical scientist a sense of exploration. This sensibility is genuine, for not only is high-latitude ?eldwork arduous with many locations seldom or never visited, but there remains much fundamental knowledge yet to be discovered about how the polar regions interact with the global climate system. The range of opportunities for new discovery becomes strikingly clear when we realize that the high latitudes are not one region but are really two vastly di?erent worlds. The high Arctic is a frozen ocean surrounded by land, and is home to fragile ecosystems and unique modes of human habitation. The Antarctic is a frozen continent without regular human habitation, covered by ice sheets taller than many mountain ranges and surrounded by the Earth’s most forbidding ocean. When we consider global change as applied to the Arctic, we discuss impacts to a region whose surface and lower atmospheric temperatures are near the triple point of water throughout much of the year. The most consistent signatures of climate warming have occurred at northern high latitudes (IPCC, 2001), and the potential impacts of a few degrees increase in surface temperature include a reduction in sea ice extent, a positive feedback to climate warming due to lowering of surface albedo, and changes to surface runo? that might a?ect the Arctic Ocean’s salinity and circulation.
Polar Remote Sensing
Title | Polar Remote Sensing PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Massom |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | 511 |
Release | 2006-08-31 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 3540305653 |
Polar Remote Sensing is a two-volume work providing a comprehensive, multidisciplinary discussion of the applications of satellite sensing. Volume 2 focuses on the ice sheets, icebergs, and interactions between ice sheets and the atmosphere and ocean. It contains information about the applications of satellite remote sensing in all relevant polar related disciplines, including glaciology, meteorology, climate and radiation balance and oceanogaraphy. It also provides a brief review of the state-of-the-art of each discipline, including current issues and questions. Various passive and active remote sensor types are discussed, and the book then concentrates on specific geophysical applications. Its interdisciplinary approach means that major advances and publications are highlighted. Polar Remote Sensing: Ice Sheets summarizes fundamental principles of detectors, imaging and geophysical product retrieval includes a chapter on the important new field of satellite synthetic-aperture radar interferometry is a "one stop shop" for polar remote sensing information contains significant new information on the Earth's polar regions describes sophisticated groundbased remote sensing applications with specific reference to their use in polar regions.
Satellite Remote Sensing of Polar Regions
Title | Satellite Remote Sensing of Polar Regions PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Massom |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 334 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Remote sensing |
ISBN |
Outlines the evolution of satellite-borne remote sensing of polar regions, evaluates satellites currently in operation, and considers future developments.
Polar Remote Sensing
Title | Polar Remote Sensing PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Massom |
Publisher | Springer |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2009-09-02 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 9783540811367 |
Polar Remote Sensing is a two-volume work providing a comprehensive, multidisciplinary discussion of the applications of satellite sensing. Volume 2 focuses on the ice sheets, icebergs, and interactions between ice sheets and the atmosphere and ocean. It contains information about the applications of satellite remote sensing in all relevant polar related disciplines, including glaciology, meteorology, climate and radiation balance and oceanogaraphy. It also provides a brief review of the state-of-the-art of each discipline, including current issues and questions. Various passive and active remote sensor types are discussed, and the book then concentrates on specific geophysical applications. Its interdisciplinary approach means that major advances and publications are highlighted. Polar Remote Sensing: Ice Sheets summarizes fundamental principles of detectors, imaging and geophysical product retrieval includes a chapter on the important new field of satellite synthetic-aperture radar interferometry is a "one stop shop" for polar remote sensing information contains significant new information on the Earth's polar regions describes sophisticated groundbased remote sensing applications with specific reference to their use in polar regions.
Polar Remote Sensing
Title | Polar Remote Sensing PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Massom |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2006 |
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Polar Remote Sensing
Title | Polar Remote Sensing PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Massom |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 426 |
Release | 2006 |
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Polar Research from Satellites
Title | Polar Research from Satellites PDF eBook |
Author | Robert H. Thomas |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 108 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Artificial satellites |
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