Microwave Remote Sensing Tools in Environmental Science

This book gives new insight to the study of the global environmental changes using the ecoinformatics and microwave remote sensing tools together with the adaptive-evolutionary technology of geoinformation monitoring. The main advantage of this book consists in the accumulation of the interdisciplinary scientific knowledge for the parameterization of the global biogeochemical cycles and other environmental processes in the context of globalization and sustainable development. In this regard, the crucial global problems of the dynamics of the climate-nature-society system have been considered and the key problems of ensuring its sustainable development have been addressed. An analysis of the present trend in changing ecological systems has been discussed, including different types of forest ecosystems and ocean aquatories. The emphasis has been given to the accomplishment of the global geoinformation monitoring, which could provide a reliable control of the environmental processes development with reliable prognostic estimates of the consequences of human activities. A new approach to the numerical modelling of the climate-nature-society system has been presented and demonstrative results have been given about the modelling of the dynamics of this system‟s characteristics, in cases of realization of some scenarios of the anthropogenic impacts to the biogeochemical cycles, the land ecosystems and oceans. Methods and algorithms for the big data manipulation and processing in the remote sensing environmental monitoring systems have been described. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxiii Basic Concepts of Microwave Radiometry (Costas A. Varotsos, Vladimir F. Krapivin)....Pages 1-43 Remote Sensing Technologies and Data Processing Algorithms (Costas A. Varotsos, Vladimir F. Krapivin)....Pages 45-97 Constructive Method of Vegetation Microwave Monitoring (Costas A. Varotsos, Vladimir F. Krapivin)....Pages 99-120 Microwave Remote Sensing of Soil Moisture (Costas A. Varotsos, Vladimir F. Krapivin)....Pages 121-144 Vegetation Screening Effect in Remote SensingMonitoring (Costas A. Varotsos, Vladimir F. Krapivin)....Pages 145-162 Microwave Tools for Diagnosing Forest Fires (Costas A. Varotsos, Vladimir F. Krapivin)....Pages 163-194 Space Methods and Monitoring Tools for the Investigation of Aquatic Systems (Costas A. Varotsos, Vladimir F. Krapivin)....Pages 195-294 Microwave Remote Sensing Monitoring and Global Climate Change Problems (Costas A. Varotsos, Vladimir F. Krapivin)....Pages 295-393 Global Climate Monitoring with Microwave Measurements (Costas A. Varotsos, Vladimir F. Krapivin)....Pages 395-457 Back Matter ....Pages 459-468