Table of Contents
Biographical sketch of Dale A. Quattrochi, Biographical sketch of Jeffrey C. Luvall, Contributors’ biographies, Preface, Introduction, PART I: Thermal infrared data for assessment and quantification of surface energy fluxes and soil moisture, 1. Estimating environmental variables using thermal remote sensing, 2. Land surface temperature retrieval techniques and applications: case of the AVHRR, 3. High spatial resolution mapping of surface energy balance components with remotely sensed data, 4. Estimating spatially distributed surface fluxes in a semi-arid Great Basin desert using Landsat TM thermal data, 5. Coupling thermal infrared and visible satellite measurements to infer biophysical variables at the land surface, 6. Rapid soil drying and its implications for remote sensing of soil moisture and the surface energy fluxes, 7. Mapping surface energy fluxes with radio metric temperature, PART II: Thermal infrared data for assessment of ecosystem health, 8. Thermal infrared measurement as an indicator of plant ecosystem health, 9. Exergy analysis of ecosystems: establishing a role for thermal remote sensing, PART III: Thermal infrared instruments and calibration, 10. Calibration of thermal infrared sensors, 11. MUST – a medium scale surface temperature mission dedicated to environment and agriculture, Epilogue, Index
