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Handbook of Satellite Land Products
- 1st Edition - July 1, 2025
- Editors: Shunlin Liang, Han Ma
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 1 4 8 5 - 1
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 1 4 9 7 - 4
Handbook of Satellite Land Products compiles the key information of as many satellite products as possible for each essential land variable. It provides a comprehensive list of o… Read more
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Request a sales quoteHandbook of Satellite Land Products compiles the key information of as many satellite products as possible for each essential land variable. It provides a comprehensive list of openly accessible high-level satellite products that characterize the essential land surface variables of the Earth system, including the original data sources, inversion algorithms, product characteristics, validation accuracy, and any existing applications. Each product includes satellite data inversion methodology and high-level product generation and application information, allowing for comparison of different products and selection of the correct ones for different applications.
This book will help researchers, professors, and graduate students grasp the knowledge of existing satellite land products, understand the advantages and limitations, and follow the practical application examples.
- Delivers a comprehensive list of existing satellite products and their characteristics, enabling readers to compare products and select the right ones for their application
- Includes descriptions of the methodology of satellite product generation, allowing for comprehension of the fundamental inversion principles and practical algorithms for product generation
- Provides example product applications for how each satellite product can be used to solve practical problems
Researchers, technicians and academics in the fields of Earth and environmental sciences, such as Earth observation, remote sensing, and geography
Part I Land surface radiation energy budget
1. incident solar radiation products
2. Surface albedo products
3. Longwave radiation
4. Land Surface Temperature
5. Emissivity
6. Near-ground air temperature
7. Net Radiation
8. Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function
Part II Ecosystem Structure and Carbon Cycle
9. Leaf Area Index
10. Fraction of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation
11. Fraction of Vegetation Cover
12. Fraction of forest cover
13. Clumping Index
14. Tree height
15. Biomass
16. Gross Primary Productivity
17. Net Primary Productivity
18. NEP products
Part III Water cycle and cryosphere
19. Precipitation
20. Surface water
21. Soil Moisture
22. Evapotranspiration
23. Snow and Ice cover
24. Snow water equivalent
25. Freezing and Thawing State
Part IV Land cover and land use
26. Land Cover
27. Wetlands
28. Mangrove
29. Crop types
30. Impervious Surface
31. Fires
32. Forest Loss and Gain
1. incident solar radiation products
2. Surface albedo products
3. Longwave radiation
4. Land Surface Temperature
5. Emissivity
6. Near-ground air temperature
7. Net Radiation
8. Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function
Part II Ecosystem Structure and Carbon Cycle
9. Leaf Area Index
10. Fraction of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation
11. Fraction of Vegetation Cover
12. Fraction of forest cover
13. Clumping Index
14. Tree height
15. Biomass
16. Gross Primary Productivity
17. Net Primary Productivity
18. NEP products
Part III Water cycle and cryosphere
19. Precipitation
20. Surface water
21. Soil Moisture
22. Evapotranspiration
23. Snow and Ice cover
24. Snow water equivalent
25. Freezing and Thawing State
Part IV Land cover and land use
26. Land Cover
27. Wetlands
28. Mangrove
29. Crop types
30. Impervious Surface
31. Fires
32. Forest Loss and Gain
- No. of pages: 395
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: July 1, 2025
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443214851
- eBook ISBN: 9780443214974
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Shunlin Liang
Shunlin Liang is Chair Professor at the Department of Geography, University of Hong Kong. His main research interests focus on estimating land surface essential variables from satellite data, global satellite product generation, and global environmental change. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and an Editor-in-Chief of Science of Remote Sensing. He has published over 430 peer-reviewed journal papers, 10 special issues of different journals, and authored/edited eight books. He was also Editor-in-Chief of the nine-volume reference work “Comprehensive Remote Sensing” (Elsevier, 2017) and has led to develop the Global LAnd Surface Satellite (GLASS) products suite and the Hi-GLASS products.
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Geography, University of Hong KongHM
Han Ma
Han Ma is Research Assistant Professor at the Department of Geography, the University of Hong Kong. She was a research assistant at the University of Maryland, USA in 2017, and a postdoctorial fellow at Wuhan University, China from 2018-2022. Her main research interests include radiative transfer modeling and inversion of land surface/atmospheric variables, and high-level global satellite product generation/analysis. She developed two global satellite products (leaf area index and fraction of absorbed photosynthetically active radiation) at 250m spatial resolution from 2000-2021, which are the global LAI and FAPAR time-series products with the highest spatial resolution in the world.
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Geography, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong