**Meet the editor**

Dr Oreste Capelli was born in 1956 in Bologna (Italy). After graduating in Medicine and Surgery at Modena University (1981), he became a specialist in Pulmonary (1985) and Internal Medicine (1992). From 1985 to 1990 he worked as a Pneumologist at Modena University Hospital, teaching clinical methodology in the graduate school of pulmonary medicine. From 1991 to 2003 Dr

Capelli worked as a General Practitioner in a rural setting. In this period he collaborated with Local Health Authority to implement local guidelines and clinical audit. In 2004, after he completed a Master in Evidence Based Medicine and Research Methodology, Dr Capelli began working at the NHS Centre for the Evaluation of Effectiveness of Health Care (CeVEAS) in Modena, in charge of EBM courses for GPs. Unrtil 2011 he planned several Clinical Audit and observational researches in Primary Care. Since January 2012 Dr Capelli is the Head of the Unit for Integrated Management of Chronic Diseases, in the Primary Care District Service at the Regional Health Authority of Emilia Romagna (Bologna, Italy).

Contents

**Preface IX** 

**Part 1 Water Monitoring 1** 

Chapter 1 **On the Use of Airborne Imaging Spectroscopy Data for the Automatic Detection and Delineation of Surface Water Bodies 3** 

Chapter 2 **Remote Sensing for Mapping and Monitoring** 

Chapter 3 **Satellite-Based Snow Cover Analysis and the** 

**with Satellite Remote Sensing 75**  Yang Dingtian and Yang Chaoyu

**to Produce a Digital Geomorphological Map of a Test Area in Central Italy 97**  Laura Melelli, Lucilia Gregori and Luisa Mancinelli

Chapter 6 **Analysis of Land Cover Classification in Arid Environment: A Comparison Performance of Four Classifiers 117** 

Chapter 7 **Application of Remote Sensing for Tsunami Disaster 143**  Anawat Suppasri, Shunichi Koshimura, Masashi Matsuoka,

M. R. Mustapha, H. S. Lim and M. Z. MatJafri

Hideomi Gokon and Daroonwan Kamthonkiat

Chapter 5 **The Use of Remote Sensed Data and GIS** 

Carlos Henrique Pires Luis

Chapter 4 **Seagrass Distribution in China** 

**Part 2 Earth Monitoring 95** 

Philippe Maillard, Marco Otávio Pivari and

Mathias Bochow, Birgit Heim, Theres Küster, Christian Rogaß, Inka Bartsch, Karl Segl, Sandra Reigber and Hermann Kaufmann

**Snow Water Equivalent Retrieval Perspective over China 47**  Yubao Qiu, Huadong Guo, Jiancheng Shi and Juha Lemmetyinen

**Wetlands and Small Lakes in Southeast Brazil 23** 
