Extreme weather and climate change aggravate the frequency and magnitude of disasters. Facing atypical and more severe events, existing early warning and response systems become inadequate both in scale and scope. Earth Observation (EO) provides today information at global, regional and even basin scales related to agrometeorological hazards. This book focuses on drought, flood, frost, landslides, and storms/cyclones and covers different applications of EO data used from prediction to mapping damages as well as recovery for each category. It explains the added value of EO technology in comparison with conventional techniques applied today through many case studies.
Section I: Remote Sensing of Drought
1. Drought and Remote Sensing: An
Overview
2. Agricultural Drought Monitoring Using Satellite Soil Moisture and
Other Remote Sensing Data over the Iberian Peninsula
3. Drought Assessments
by Coupling Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer Images and Weather
Data: A Case Study in the Minas Gerais State, Brazil
4. The Added Value of
Satellite Soil Moisture for Agricultural Index Insurance
5. Detecting the
2012 Drought in the Southeastern United States with Moderate Resolution
Imaging Spectroradiometer- and Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment-Based
Drought Indicators Section II: Remote Sensing of Frost and Sea Ice Hazards
6.
Frost and Remote Sensing: An Overview of Capabilities
7. Remote Sensing of
Sea Ice Hazards: An Overview
8. Satellite Microwave Remote Sensing of
Landscape FreezeThaw Status Related to Frost Hazard Monitoring
9.
Temperature Fluctuation and Frost Risk Analysis on a Road Network by Coupling
Remote Sensing Data, Thermal Mapping, and Geographic Information System
Techniques Section III: Remote Sensing of Wildfires
10. Wildfires and Remote
Sensing: An Overview
11. A Review on European Remote Sensing Activities in
Wildland Fires Prevention
12. Remote Sensing of Fire Effects: A Review for
Recent Advances in Burned Area and Burn Severity Mapping
13. Exploring the
Relationships between Topographical Elements and Forest Fire Occurrences in
Alberta, Canada
14. Quantifying the Interannual Variability of Wildfire
Events across Portugal for the 20142015 Wildfires Using the Data from the
European Forest Fire Information System Section IV: Remote Sensing of Flood
15. Satellite Remote Sensing of Floods for Disaster Response Assistance
16.
Usefulness of Remotely Sensed Data for Extreme Flood Event Modeling: A Study
Case from an Amazonian Floodplain
17. Large-Scale Flood Monitoring in Monsoon
Asia for Global Disaster Risk Reduction Using MODIS/EOS Data
18. Introducing
Flood Susceptibility Index Using Remote-Sensing Data and Geographic
Information Systems: Empirical Analysis in Sperchios River Basin, Greece
19.
Satellite-Based Precipitation for Modeling Floods: Current Status and
Limitations Section V: Remote Sensing of Storms
20. Application of
Remote-Sensing Images for Post-Wind Storm Damage Analysis
21. Analyzing
Tropical Cyclones over India Using Precipitation Radar
22. Radar Rainfall
Estimates for Debris-Flow Early Warning Systems: Effect of Different
Correction Procedures on the Identification of IntensityDuration Thresholds
Section VI: Remote Sensing of Landslides
23. A Review of Unmanned Aerial
Vehicles, Citizen Science, and Interferometry Remote Sensing in Landslide
Hazards: Applications in Transportation Routes and Mining Environments
24.
Landslide Susceptibility Assessment Mapping: A Case Study in Central Greece
Dr. George P. Petropoulos is an Associate Professor in Remote Sensing & GIS in the Department of Geography & Earth Sciences (DGES) at Aberystwyth University in Wales, UK. He completed his graduate studies (MSc, PhD) at the University of London. Dr. Petropoulos research focuses on exploiting EO data alone or synergistically with land surface process models for computing key state variables of the Earth's energy and water budget, including energy fluxes and soil surface moisture. He is also conducting research on the application of remote sensing technology to land cover mapping and its changes occurred from either anthropogenic activities or geohazards (mainly floods, wildfires, frost). Dr. Petropoulos serves as a Council member and Trustee of the Remote Sensing & Photogrammetric Society (RSPSoC), he is Associate Editor and Editorial Board Member on several international peer-reviewed scientific journals in EO and environmental modelling. He has also convened the organisation of several scientific specialised sessions at international conferences. He is Editor/co-editor of 3 other books and co-author +55 peer-reviewed journal articles. He has developed fruitful collaborations with key scientists in his area of specialisation globally, and his research work so far has received international recognition via several noteworthy awards he has obtained.
Tanvir Islam is with the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and specializes in remote sensing observations. Presently, he is engaged with the development of advanced microwave calibration and retrieval algorithms for NASAs Earth observing missions. Prior to joining NASA/JPL in 2015, he was with the NOAA/ NESDIS/STAR and worked on the development of satellite remote sensing algorithms, with an emphasis on microwave variational inversion techniques (20132015). He also held visiting scientist positions at the University of Tokyo, Japan as part of the NASA/ JAXA precipitation measurement missions (PMM) algorithm development team, in 2012 and at the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada in 2015. He earned his PhD in remote sensing at the University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom in 2012.
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