About this book
Volume 3 of the six-volume Remote Sensing Handbook, second edition, is focused on agriculture; food security; vegetation; phenology; rangelands; soils; and global biomass modeling, mapping, and monitoring using multi-sensor remote sensing. It discusses the application of remote sensing in agriculture systems analysis, phenology, cropland mapping and modeling, terrestrial vegetation studies, physically based models, food and water security, precision farming, crop residues, global view of rangelands, and soils. This thoroughly revised and updated volume draws on the expertise of a diverse array of leading international authorities in remote sensing and provides an essential resource for researchers at all levels interested in using remote sensing. It integrates discussions of remote sensing principles, data, methods, development, applications, and scientific and social context.
Features:
- Provides the most up-to-date comprehensive coverage of remote sensing science in agriculture, vegetation, and soil studies.
- Discusses and analyzes data from old and new generations of satellites and sensors spread across 60 years.
- Provides comprehensive assessment of modeling, mapping, and monitoring agricultural crops, vegetation, and soils from wide array of sensors, methods, and techniques.
- Includes numerous case studies on advances and applications at local, regional, and global scales.
- Introduces advanced methods in remote sensing such as machine learning, cloud computing, and AI.
- Highlights scientific achievements over the last decade and provides guidance for future developments.
This volume is an excellent resource for the entire remote sensing and GIS community. Academics, researchers, undergraduate and graduate students, as well as practitioners, decision makers, and policymakers, will benefit from the expertise of the professionals featured in this book, and their extensive knowledge of new and emerging trends.
Contents
Part I: Vegetation and Biomass
1. Measuring Photosynthesis Productivity from Space / Alfredo Huete, Guillermo Ponce-Campos, Yongguang Zhang, et al.
2. Remote Sensing of Solar-Induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence / Juan Quiros-Vargas, Bastian Siegmann, Juliane Bendig, et al.
3. Canopy Biophysical Variables Retrieval from the Inversion of Reflectance Models / Frédéric Baret
4. Agricultural Crop Biophysical and Biochemical Quantity Retrievals using Remote Sensing with Multi-Sensor / Lea Hallik, Egidijus Šarauskis, Ruchita Ingle,et al.
5. Agriculture / Clement Atzberger and Markus Immitzer
Part II: Agricultural Croplands
6. Agricultural Systems Studies using Remote Sensing / Agnès Bégué, Damien Arvor, Camille Lelong, et al.
7. Global Food Security Support Analysis Data (GFSAD) at Nominal 1-km derived from Remote Sensing in Support of Food Security in the Twenty-first Century: Current Achievements and Future Possibilities / Pardhasaradhi Teluguntla, Prasad S. Thenkabail, Jun Xiong,et al.
8. Remote Sensing for Precision Agriculture / Yuxin Miao, David J. Mulla, and Yanbo Huang
9. Remote Sensing of Tillage Status / Baojuan Zheng, James B. Campbell, Guy Serbin, et al.
Part III: Rangelands
10. Hyperspectral Remote Sensing for Terrestrial Applications / Prasad S. Thenkabail, Itiya Aneece, Pardhasaradhi Teluguntla, et al.
11. A Global View of Remote Sensing of Rangelands: Evolution, Applications, Future Pathways / Matthew C. Reeves, Robert Washington-Allen, Jay Angerer, et al.
12. Remote Sensing of Rangeland Biodiversity / E. Raymond Hunt Jr, Cuizhen Wang, D. Terrance Booth, et al.
Part IV: Phenology and Food Security
13. Characterization, Mapping, and Monitoring of Rangelands: Methods and Approaches / Lalit Kumar, Priyakant Sinha, Jesslyn F Brown, et al.
Part V: Soils
14. Global Land Surface Phenology and Implications for Food Security / Molly E Brown, Kirsten de Beurs, and Kathryn Grace
15. Spectral Sensing from Ground to Space in Soil Science: State of the Art, Applications, Potential and Perspectives / José A. M. Demattê, Cristine L. S. Morgan, Sabine Chabrillat, et al.
16. Remote Sensing of Soil in the Optical Domains / Eyal Ben-Dor and José Alexandre M. Demattê
Part VI: Summary and Synthesis for Volume III
17. Remote Sensing Handbook, Vol III: Agriculture, Food Security, Rangelands, Vegetation, Phenology, and Soils / Prasad Thenkabail
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Biography
Dr Prasad S. Thenkabail, Senior Scientist (ST), United States Geological Survey (USGS), is a world-recognised expert in remote sensing science with major contributions in the field for nearly 40 years. He has made the list of the world's top 1% of scientists across 22 scientific fields and 176 sub-fields. Dr Thenkabail has conducted pioneering research in hyperspectral remote sensing of vegetation, global croplands, and their water use for food security. He obtained his PhD from the Ohio State University in 1992 and has 168 peer-reviewed publications, including 15 books (which includes this six-volume set), and over 15 major data releases such as the Landsat-derived global cropland extent product @ 30m and Landsat-derived rainfed and irrigated cropland area product @ 30 m (LGRIP30). He was recognised as a Fellow of the American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) in 2023. His scientific papers have won several awards for demonstrating world-class, highest-quality research. He was a Landsat Science Team Member (2007-2011).
