Advances in Quantitative Remote Sensing in China - In Memory of Prof. Xiaowen Li 

 -  MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute  2019 
 - 1 online resource (404 p.) 
<br/><br/> Open Access 
<br/><br/> Quantitative land remote sensing has recently advanced dramatically, particularly in China. It has been largely driven by vast governmental investment, the availability of a huge amount of Chinese satellite data, geospatial information requirements for addressing pressing environmental issues and other societal benefits. Many individuals have also fostered and made great contributions to its development, and Prof. Xiaowen Li was one of these leading figures. This book is published in memory of Prof. Li. The papers collected in this book cover topics from surface reflectance simulation, inversion algorithm and estimation of variables, to applications in optical, thermal, Lidar and microwave remote sensing. The wide range of variables include directional reflectance, chlorophyll fluorescence, aerosol optical depth, incident solar radiation, albedo, surface temperature, upward longwave radiation, leaf area index, fractional vegetation cover, forest biomass, precipitation, evapotranspiration, freeze/thaw snow cover, vegetation productivity, phenology and biodiversity indicators. They clearly reflect the current level of research in this area. This book constitutes an excellent reference suitable for upper-level undergraduate students, graduate students and professionals in remote sensing. 
<br/><br/><br/>Creative Commons 
<br/><br/><br/>English 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9783038972709 books978-3-03897-271-6 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>10.3390/books978-3-03897-271-6  doi 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Geography
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label><i>Cunninghamia</i> 3D reconstruction aboveground biomass aerosol aerosol retrieval albedometer algorithmic assessment AMSR2 anisotropic reflectance Antarctica arid/semiarid AVHRR BEPS biodiversity black-sky albedo (BSA) boreal forest BRDF canopy reflectance China Chinese fir cloud fraction CMA composite slope comprehensive field experiment controlling factors copper cost-efficient crop-growing regions daily average value decision tree dense forest disturbance index downscaling downward shortwave radiation drought end of growing season (EOS) evapotranspiration EVI2 fluorescence quantum efficiency in dark-adapted conditions (FQE) flux measurements forest canopy height forest disturbance fractional vegetation cover (FVC) Fraunhofer Line Discrimination (FLD) FY-3C/MERSI FY-3C/MWRI gap fraction geographical detector model geometric optical radiative transfer (GORT) model geometric-optical model geostationary satellite GF-1 WFV GLASS GLASS LAI time series GPP gradient boosting regression tree gross primary production (GPP) gross primary productivity (GPP) heterogeneity high resolution high-resolution freeze/thaw HiWATER HJ-1 CCD homogeneous and pure pixel filter humidity profiles hybrid method ICESat GLAS inter-annual variation interference filter interpolation LAI land cover change land surface albedo Land surface emissivity land surface temperature Land surface temperature land surface variables land-surface temperature products (LSTs) Landsat latent heat latitudinal pattern leaf leaf age leaf area density leaf area index leaf spectral properties LiDAR light use efficiency longwave upwelling radiation (LWUP) LUT method machine learning machine learning algorithms maize MCD43A3 C6 meteorological factors metric comparison metric integration MODIS MODIS products MRT-based model MS-PT algorithm multi-data set multi-scale validation multiple ecological factors multisource data fusion MuSyQ-GPP algorithm n/a NDVI NIR Northeast China northern China NPP observations passive microwave phenological parameters phenology photoelectric detector pixel unmixing plant functional type point cloud polar orbiting satellite potential evapotranspiration precipitation probability density function PROSPECT PROSPECT-5B+SAILH (PROSAIL) model quantitative remote sensing inversion RADARSAT-2 random forest model reflectance model remote sensing rice rugged terrain sampling design satellite observations scale effects SCOPE SIF sinusoidal method snow cover snow-free albedo solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence solo slope South China's spatial heterogeneity spatial representativeness spatial-temporal variations spatio-temporal spatiotemporal distribution and variation spatiotemporal representative species richness spectra spectral SPI standard error of the mean start of growing season (SOS) statistics methods subpixel information sunphotometer surface radiation budget surface solar irradiance SURFRAD Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) temperature profiles terrestrial LiDAR thermal radiation directionality Tibetan Plateau TMI data topographic effects tree canopy uncertainty urban scale validation variability vegetation dust-retention vegetation phenology vegetation remote sensing vertical structure vertical vegetation stratification Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) voxel VPM ZY-3 MUX