Contents

**Section 1 Land Cover 1** 


X Contents


Contents VII

Chapter 17 **Remote Sensing Application in**

Jing Peng and Chaojian Shi

**Section 4 Human Activity Assessment 405**

Chapter 19 **Remote Sensing Applications**

Chapter 21 **Remote Sensing for Medical** 

Chapter 18 **Object-Based Image Analysis of VHR** 

Krištof Oštir and Primož Kovačič

**in Archaeological Research 435** Dimitrios D. Alexakis, Athos Agapiou, Diofantos G. Hadjimitsis and Apostolos Sarris

Chapter 20 **The Mapping of the Urban Growth of** 

Kayembe wa Kayembe Matthieu, Mathieu De Maeyer and Eléonore Wolff

**and Health Care Applications 479** Satoshi Suzuki and Takemi Matsui

Jean-Pierre Ardouin, Josée Lévesque,

**Exploitation for Military Applications 493** 

Vincent Roy, Yves Van Chestein and Anthony Faust

Chapter 22 **Demonstration of Hyperspectral Image** 

**the Maritime Search and Rescue 381** 

**Satellite Imagery for Population Estimation**

Tatjana Veljanovski, Urša Kanjir, Peter Pehani,

**Kinshasa (DRC) Through High Resolution Remote Sensing Between 1995 and 2005 463**

**in Informal Settlement Kibera-Nairobi, Kenya 407**

Shrinidhi Ambinakudige and Kabindra Joshi


VI Contents

Chapter 7 **High Resolution Remote Sensing Images** 

Chapter 8 **Automatic Mapping of the Lava Flows at** 

**Section 2 Climate and Atmosphere 221** 

Chapter 9 **Coupled Terrestrial Carbon** 

Baozhang Chen

Hiroaki Kuze

Chapter 12 **Remote Sensing of** 

**Section 3 Oceans and Cryosphere 295** 

Chapter 13 **Remote Sensing and Environmental** 

Chapter 14 **Satellite Remote Sensing of Coral Reef** 

Chapter 15 **Predictability of Water Sources** 

Chapter 16 **Remote Sensing of Cryosphere 369** 

Zhiqiang Lin, Ping Wang and Wei Zhang

**Based Catastrophe Assessment Method 177**  Qi Wen, Yida Fan, Siquan Yang, Shirong Chen, Haixia He, Sanchao Liu, Wei Wu, Lei Wang, Juan Nie, Wei Wang, Baojun Zhang, Feng Xu, Tong Tang,

**Piton de la Fournaise Volcano, by Combining Thermal Data in Near and Visible Infrared 201**

**Ecosystems: Contributions of Remote Sensing 223** 

**Sensing of Atmospheric Aerosols and Clouds 279** 

**Sensitivity for Oil Spill in the Amazon, Brazil 309** 

**Habitats Mapping in Shallow Waters at Banco** 

F. Omar Tapia-Silva and Sergio Cerdeira-Estrada

**the Modis Imagery in Central Alborz, Iran 355** 

**Chinchorro Reefs, México: A Classification Approach 331**  Ameris Ixchel Contreras-Silva, Alejandra A. López-Caloca,

Seyed Kazem Alavipanah, Somayeh Talebi and Farshad Amiraslani

Z. Servadio, N. Villeneuve and P. Bachèlery

**and Water Dynamics in Terrestrial** 

Chapter 10 **Oceanic Evaporation: Trends and Variability 261** Long S. Chiu, Si Gao and Chung-Lin Shie

Chapter 11 **Multi-Wavelength and Multi-Direction Remote** 

**Submerged Aquatic Vegetation 297**  Hyun Jung Cho, Deepak Mishra and John Wood

Milena Andrade and Claudio Szlafsztein

**Using Snow Maps Extracted from** 

Shrinidhi Ambinakudige and Kabindra Joshi


Preface

Nowadays it is hard to find areas of human activity and development that have not profited from or contributed to remote sensing. Natural, physical and social activities find in remote sensing a common ground for interaction and development. From the end-user point of view, Earth science, geography, planning, resource management, public policy design, environmental studies, and health, are some of the areas whose recent development has been triggered and motivated by remote sensing. From the technological point of view, remote sensing would not be possible without the advancement of basic as well as applied research in areas like physics, space technology, telecommunications, computer science and engineering. This dual conception of remote sensing brought us to the idea of preparing two different books. The present one is meant to display recent advances in remote sensing applications, while the accompanying book

Strictly speaking, remote sensing consists of collecting data from an object or phenomenon without making physical contact. In practice, most of the time we refer to satellite or aircraft-mounted sensors that use some sort of electromagnetic radiation to gather geospatial information from land, oceans and atmosphere with increasingly high spatial, spectral and temporal resolutions. Space agencies in charge of collecting remotely sensed data have shown a notorious interest in making these data available for research and social development. The confluence of remote sensing technology with other sciences has resulted in an exponential growth of knowledge, technology development and assessment of all kind of physical and natural phenomena, as well as human activities that share a common ground: geospatial information. However, the success of remote sensing influencing other areas of knowledge and human activity has not always been a paved way. The variables of great interest to scientists in different areas are not readily available from the raw remotely-sensed data. Even when the data has been processed and converted to physical-related values, or even linked to human and natural artifacts like crop fields, roads, urban areas, geomorphologic structures, vegetation indices, etc., the relationship between these and the more abstract variables that explain them such as human settlement dynamics, geophysical phenomena, climate

This book intends to show the reader how remote sensing impacts other areas of science, technology, and human activity, by displaying a selected number of high

is devoted to new techniques for data processing, sensors and platforms.

change, etc. remain a major field of study and research.
