Remote Sensing Of Environmental Changes In Cold Regions

Download or read book Remote Sensing of Environmental Changes in Cold Regions written by Jinyang Du and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2019-11-14 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Special Issue gathers papers reporting recent advances in the remote sensing of cold regions. It includes contributions presenting improvements in modeling microwave emissions from snow, assessment of satellite-based sea ice concentration products, satellite monitoring of ice jam and glacier lake outburst floods, satellite mapping of snow depth and soil freeze/thaw states, near-nadir interferometric imaging of surface water bodies, and remote sensing-based assessment of high arctic lake environment and vegetation recovery from wildfire disturbances in Alaska. A comprehensive review is presented to summarize the achievements, challenges, and opportunities of cold land remote sensing.