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Title
Remote sensing land surface changes : the 1981-2020 intensive global warming / Felix Kogan.
ISBN
9783030968106 (electronic bk.)
3030968103 (electronic bk.)
9783030968090
303096809X
Published
Cham : Springer, 2022.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (ix, 462 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1007/978-3-030-96810-6 doi
Call Number
GB400.42.R4
Dewey Decimal Classification
551.4
Summary
This book discusses the detrimental consequences of climate-related land changes over a 40-year period between 1981 and 2020, and focuses on how climate warming is deteriorating the agricultural system due to excessive heat, lack of moisture and more intensive and widespread droughts leading to a reduction of agricultural production. Most of the existing literature on the unfavourable consequences of global warming for land are based on a relatively short period of weather station data, covering local land areas with limited networks and monitoring parameters. These concerns have led to the use of satellite data, whose measurements are controlled by such vegetation characteristics as chlorophyll, carotenoids, moisture contents in the plants and temperature inside the vegetation community. Therefore, the discussion of this book is completely based on high-resolution global land surface measurements by the sensors on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) operational afternoon polar-orbiting satellites. The book also focuses on understanding climate change impacts on land changes where humans are living, and combines biophysically-grounded methods and the 40-year data to develop models for monitoring large-scale Earth warming impacts on land and for timely prediction of climate consequences for humans. These 40-year trends in land characteristics will help to better inform the assessment of potential changes in the future and how to reach human sustainability. The book will of interest to scientists using satellite remote sensing to track climate change impacts on land over time, as well as students and researchers in climatology and environmental sustainability. .
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed February 28, 2023).
Available in Other Form
Print version: 9783030968090
Chapter 1-Why this Topic?
Chapter 2-Global Warming Impact on Earth Systems
Chapter 3-The IPCC Reports on Global Warming and Land Changes
Chapter 4.NOAA Operational Environmental Satellites for Earth Monitoring
Chapter 5-New Remote Sensing Vegetation Health Technology
Chapter 6-Cause of Climate Warming
Chapter 7- Land Cover Changes from Intensive Climate Warming
Chapter 8-Global Warming Crop Yield and Food Security
Chapter 9-Remote Sensing Malaria During Global Warming
Chapter 10-Malaria Performance Trend During 1981-2022
Chapter 11-Remote Sensing Drought Watch and Food Security
Chapter 12-Has Drought Intensified During 1981-2021 Global Warming?
