Agricultural droughts affect whole societies, leading to higher food costs, threatened economies, and even famine. In order to mitigate such effects, researchers must first be able to monitor them, and then predict them; however no book currently focuses on accurate monitoring or prediction of these devastating kinds of droughts. To fill this void, the editors of Monitoring and Predicting Agricultural Drought have assembled a team of expert contributors from all continents to make a global study, describing biometeorological models and monitoring methods for agricultural droughts. These models and methods note the relationships between precipitation, soil moisture, and crop yields, using data gathered from conventional and remote sensing techniques. The coverage of the book includes probabilistic models and techniques used in America, Europe and the former USSR, Africa, Asia, and Australia, and it concludes with coverage of climate change and resultant shifts in agricultural productivity, drought early warning systems, and famine mitigation. This will be an essential collection for those who must advise governments or international organizations on the current scope, likelihood, and impact of agricultural droughts. Sponsored by the World Meterological Organization

Monitoring and Predicting Agricultural Drought: A Global Study

Business & Money

Cracknell, Arthur P.

Boken, Vijendra K.

Heathcote, Ronald L.

Economics

Oxford University Press

Understanding Global Climate Change: Modelling the Climatic System and Human Impacts

"Climate change is far more than just global warming due to atmospheric greenhouse gases including CO2. The availability of climate-related data and computer modelling is a key factor in observing and analyzing climate change today. In order to understand the nature of climate change it is necessary to consider the whole climatic system, its complexity, and the ways in which natural and anthropogenic activities act and influence that system and the environment. Using a combination of ground data, satellite data, and human impacts, this second edition discusses the state of climate research today, at a global scale, and establishes a background for future discussions on climate change"--

Computers & Technology

Varotsos, Costas A.

Programming

CRC-Press

Visible Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite: A New Operational Cloud Imager

Science & Math

Hutchison, Keith D.

Earth Sciences

The Visible Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) is the next-generation multispectral imaging instrument to fly on US operational, polar-orbiting meteorological satellites. VIIRS will gather data across 22 spectral bands and be used to create products for a variety of applications including weather forecasting and climate change studies. VIIRS consolidates the best features of heritage instruments, including near-constant resolution and nighttime visible imagery. Visible Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite: A New Operational Cloud Imager provides the first comprehensive guide on the design and exploitation of cloud data collected by the VIIRS. Expert researchers Hutchison and Cracknell discuss the fundamental principles necessary to interpret surface and cloud features in multispectral meteorological satellite imagery. They begin by tracing the evolution of satellite meteorology and detailing previous instruments on which VIIRS is based. Next, they examine the user requirements for VIIRS data products and the studies used to convert these requirements into sensor design parameters. The focus then shifts to the principles and techniques used to exploit VIIRS cloud data. The book ends with a comprehensive discussion of automated processes to retrieve 3-dimensional cloud fields from a variety of algorithms, some of which were developed for the VIIRS. Supplying material for both experienced researchers and those new to the field, Visible Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite is a must-read for anyone interested in evaluating and using the data gathered from the VIIRS project.

Biological Sciences

This new edition of this highly-respected textbook provides a full and authoritative introduction for scientists, both students and professionals, needing to know the scope, potential and limitations of remote sensing. Chapters on satellite systems and on applications are given greater coverage than before and this material has been considerably updated. Key features: Comprehensively surveys the basic principles of remote sensing physics, techniques and technology Outlines data acquisition, interpretation and analysis Remotely sensed colour images from satellites and aircraft illustrate the text Coverage if applications from across the earth, environmental, atmospheric and oceanographic sciences is extensively expanded and updated More emphasis is given to satellite systems Includes updated references and bibliography for further reading SI unites are used throughout

Introduction to Remote Sensing 2ed

This collaborative book aims to offer a comprehensive introduction to global climate, the way it is currently changing, the role of earth, air and satellite observation and monitoring, and subsequent climate modelling. It focuses on the interaction between natural and anthropogenic human- made change factors. The book emphasizes the importance of capturing climatic data and the use of that data in computer-based climatic modelling.

Observing Global Climate Change

Kondratyev, Kyrill Ya

The physics of the generation, propagation, attenuation and detection of ultrasound are presented in the first part of the book, while the second part is devoted to the applications of ultrasonics not only by man in science, industry and medicine, but by animals, insects and birds in their normal life patterns.

Ultrasonics

Crane, Russak & Co.

Addressing the need for updated information in remote sensing, Introduction to Remote Sensing, Second Edition provides a full and authoritative introduction for scientists who need to know the scope, potential, and limitations in the field. The authors discuss the physical principles of common remote sensing systems and examine the processing, interpretation, and applications of data. This new edition features updated and expanded material, including greater coverage of applications from across earth, environmental, atmospheric, and oceanographic sciences. Illustrated with remotely sensed color images from satellites and aircraft, it also outlines data acquisition and analysis. 
New to this edition: 
· Details of satellite systems launched since the first edition 
· Sections on airborne lidar for land surveys and airborne gamma ray spectroscopy 
· A section on interferometric synthetic aperture radar 
· Expanded discussions of filtering of images 
· Updates to a number of recent applications, particularly some that make use of global datasets 
Suitable for students and professionals with some background in the physical sciences, this book comprehensively surveys the basic principles behind remote sensing physics, techniques, and technology.

Introduction to Remote Sensing

Introduction to Remote Sensing, Second Edition

Providing a full introduction to remote sensing for all environmental scientists, this wide-ranging and authoritative text assumes no prior knowledge of remote sensing yet covers the field in sufficient depth to be suitable also as a research manual.

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Monitoring and Predicting Agricultural Drought: A Global Study

Understanding Global Climate Change: Modelling the Climatic System and Human Impacts

Visible Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite: A New Operational Cloud Imager

Visible Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite: A New Operational Cloud Imager

Introduction to Remote Sensing 2ed

Observing Global Climate Change

Ultrasonics

Introduction to Remote Sensing

Introduction to Remote Sensing, Second Edition

Introduction to Remote Sensing, Second Edition