Место издания:Taylor and Francis London-New York-Philadelphia
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203 страниц
ISBN:0-85066-402-0
Аннотация:During the 1970s and 1980s publication of English- and Russian-language literature on the remote sensing of soils and vegetation increased rapidly. However, for language reasons, the English speaking research community has remained largely unaware of Soviet efforts in this field. This book should help to relieve some of this deficiency. Emphasis has been placed on topics such as the use of color as a remote sensing transform; the interaction of electromagnetic radiation with the environment; the estimation of soil humus, leaf chlorophyll, crop weeds and crop senescence; and the scaling-up of these estimation techniques from the laboratory to the landscape.
To provide the depth of coverage needed to highlight differences that exist in this field between the English- and Russian-speaking research communities, we decided to focus on four key topics. These are the theoretical aspects of spectrometry and color measurement; the remote sensing of soils from laboratory to aircraft; the remote sensing of vegetation from laboratory to aircraft; and the remote sensing of soils and crops from aircraft to satellite. The organizational framework and starting point from these four topics is derived, in part, from a monograph that was published in Russian by three of the authors (Kondratyev K.Ya., Kozoderov V.V., Fedchenko P.P. 1986. Airspace Studies of Soils and Vegetation. Leningrad, Hydrometeoizdat).