Environmental remote sensing and systems analysis

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Publication Information:

Boca Raton : CRC Press, 2012.

Physical Description:

xiv, 506 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.

ISBN:

9781439877432

Abstract:

"Preface: In the last few decades, rapid urbanization and industrialization have altered the priority of environmental protection and restoration of air, soil, and water quality many times. Yet it is recognized that the sustainable management of human society is necessary at all phases of impact from the interactions between energy, environment, ecology, public health, and socioeconomic paradigms. The multidisciplinary nature of this concern for sustainability is truly a challenging task that requires employing a systems analysis approach. Such a systems analysis approach links several disciplinary areas with each other to promote the concept of sustainable management. Just as a sophisticated piece of music involves many different instruments played in unison, systems analysis requires a holistic viewpoint and a plethora of tools in sensing, monitoring, and modeling that have to be woven together to explore the state and function of air, water, and land resources at all levels. With the aid of systems analysis, this comprehensive collection includes a variety of research work that results from years of experience and that reflects the contemporary advances of remote sensing technologies. This unique publication presents and applies the most recent synergy of remote sensing technologies that will advance the overall understanding of the sensitivity of key environmental quality issues in relation to human perturbations. These perturbations can be caused by collective or individual impacts of economic development and globalization, population growth and migration, and climate change on atmospheric, terrestrial, and aquatic environmental systems"-- Provided by publisher.

Subject Term:

Environmental sciences -- Remote sensing

Environmental monitoring -- Remote sensing

Added Author:

Chang, Ni-Bin

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Using a systems analysis approach and extensive case studies, Environmental Remote Sensing and Systems Analysis shows how remote sensing can be used to support environmental decision making. It presents a multidisciplinary framework and the latest remote sensing tools to understand environmental impacts, management complexity, and policy implications.

Organized into three parts, this full-color book provides systematic coverage of water quality monitoring, air quality monitoring, and monitoring of land use patterns and degradation. Chapters elaborate on the interactions between human and natural systems, addressing questions such as "what are the regional impacts of an oil spill in coastal environments?" and "how does urbanization affect the rate of infiltration of water at urban-rural interfaces?" Throughout, contributors discuss new techniques and methods for measurements, mathematical modeling, and image processing.

Key features:

Compares data mining, machine learning, and image processing methods to help you select the best one for your needs

Incorporates ground-based monitoring networks as part of air and water quality management

Emphasizes environmental information management, with proper integration of GPS, GIS, and existing environmental databases

Shows how modeling can be used for decision making

Examines how remote sensing can be used to understand environmental health implications and to shape environmental management policies

Demonstrates how systems analysis can be used to aid in environmental policy analysis

Discusses opportunities for integrated field and laboratory studies in remote sensing education

A useful reference for students, professionals, scientists, and policy makers in environmental management and informatics as well as environmental, agricultural, forest, and sustainability sciences, this book shows readers how to m

Author Notes

Dr. Ni-Bin Chang is currently a professor with the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Construction Engineering at the University of Central Florida. He is also a senior member of the Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers (IEEE) and is affiliated with the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society and the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society. He has earned the selectively awarded titles of Certificate of Leadership in Energy and Environment Design (LEED) in 2004, Board Certified Environmental Engineer (BCEE) in 2006, Diplomat of Water Resources Engineer (DWRE) in 2007, elected Member of the European Academy of Sciences (EAS) in 2008, elected Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) in 2009, and elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2011. He was one of the founders of International Society of Environmental Information Management and the former editor-in-chief of the Journal of Environmental Informatics. He is currently an editor, associate editor, or editorial board member of more than 30 international journals.

Ni-Bin ChangNi-Bin Chang and Zhemin XuanKazuo Oki and Bin He and Taikan OkiFahad A. M. AlawadiFugui Wang and Y. Jun XuPaul Eisner and Tom Spencer and Iris Möller and Geoff SmithNi-Bin Chang and Kunal NayeeMichelle Devlin and Thomas Schroeder and Lachlan McKinna and JonBrodie and Vittorio Brando and Arnold DekkerYang Hong and Zonghu Liao and Robert F. Adler and Chun LiuD. Barry Hester and Stacy A. C. Nelson and Siamak Khorram and Halil I. Cakir and Heather M. Cheshire and Ernst F. HainMaryam Dehghani and Mohammad Javad Valadan Zoej and Mohammad Sharifikia and Iman Entezam and Sassan SaatchiNi-Bin Chang and Min Han and Wei Yao and Liang-Chien ChenDengsheng Lu and Emilio Moran and Scott Hetrick and Guiying LiMichael D. Wojcik and Randal S. Martin and Jerry L. HatfieldMin M. Oo and Lakshimi Madhavan Bomidi and Barry M. GrossPasquale Avino and Maurizio ManigrassoZhiqiang Gao and Wei Gao and Ni-Bin ChangTang-Huang Lin and Gin-Rong Liu and Si-Chee Tsay and N. Christina Hsu and Shih-Jen HuangJohn J. Qu and Xianjun HaoSundar A. Christopher

Preface	p. vii
About the Editor	p. ix
Contributors	p. xi
Chapter 1 Linkages between Environmental Remote Sensing and Systems Analysis	p. 1
Part I Water Quality Monitoring, Watershed Development, and Coastal Management
Chapter 2 Using Remote Sensing-Based Carlson Index Mapping to Assess Hurricane and Drought Effects on Lake Trophic State	p. 9
Chapter 3 Mapping Potential Annual Pollutant Loads in River Basins Using Remotely Sensed Imagery	p. 35
Chapter 4 Identifying the Impact of Oil Spills with the Remote Sensing-Based Oil Spread Index Method	p. 57
Chapter 5 Remote Sensing to Predict Estuarine Water Salinity	p. 85
Chapter 6 Multitemporal Remote Sensing of Coastal Sediment Dynamics	p. 109
Chapter 7 Estimating Total Phosphorus Impacts in a Coastal Bay with Remote Sensing Images and in Situ Measurements	p. 123
Chapter 8 Monitoring and Mapping of Flood Plumes in the Great Barrier Reef Based on in Situ and Remote Sensing Observations	p. 147
Part II Sensing and Monitoring for Land Use Patterns, Reclamation, and Degradation
Chapter 9 Satellite Remote Sensing for Landslide Prediction	p. 191
Chapter 10 Analysis of Impervious Surface and Suburban Form Using High Spatial Resolution Satellite Imagery	p. 209
Chapter 11 Use of In SAR for Monitoring Land Subsidence in Mashhad Subbasin, Iran	p. 231
Chapter 12 Remote Sensing Assessment of Coastal Land Reclamation Impact in Dalian, China, Using High-Resolution SPOT Images and Support Vector Machine	p. 249
Chapter 13 Mapping Impervious Surface Distribution with the Integration of Landsat TM and QuickBird Images in a Complex Urban-Rural Frontier in Brazil	p. 277
Part III Air Quality Monitoring, Land Use/Land Cover Changes, and Environmental Health Concern
Chapter 14 Using Lidar to Characterize Particles from Point and Diffuse Sources in an Agricultural Field	p. 299
Chapter 15 Measurement of Aerosol Properties over Urban Environments from Satellite Remote Sensing	p. 333
Chapter 16 DOAS Technique: Emission Measurements in Urban and Industrial Regions	p. 377
Chapter 17 Interactions between Ultraviolet-B and Total Ozone Concentrations in the Continental United States	p. 395
Chapter 18 Remote Sensing of Asian Dust Storms	p. 423
Chapter 19 Forest Fire and Air Quality Monitoring from Space	p. 457
Chapter 20 Satellite Remote Sensing of Global Air Quality	p. 479
Index	p. 493

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