Remote Sensing Time Series: Revealing Land Surface Dynamics

Claudia Kuenzer · Stefan Dech · Wolfgang Wagner

Apr 2015 · Remote Sensing and Digital Image Processing Book 22 · Springer

About this ebook

This volume comprises an outstanding variety of chapters on Earth Observation based time series analyses, undertaken to reveal past and current land surface dynamics for large areas. What exactly are time series of Earth Observation data? Which sensors are available to generate real time series? How can they be processed to reveal their valuable hidden information? Which challenges are encountered on the way, and which pre-processing is needed? And last but not least: which processes can be observed? How are large regions of our planet changing over time, and which dynamics and trends are visible? These and many other questions are answered within this book “Remote Sensing Time Series Analyses – Revealing Land Surface Dynamics”. Internationally renowned experts from Europe, the USA, and China present their exciting findings based on the exploitation of satellite data archives from well-known sensors such as AVHRR, MODIS, Landsat, ENVISAT, ERS, and METOP amongst others. Selected review and methods chapters provide a good overview over time series processing and the recent advances in the optical and radar domain. A fine selection of application chapters addresses multi-class land cover and land use change at national to continental scale, the derivation of patterns of vegetation phenology, biomass assessments, investigations on snow cover duration and recent dynamics, as well as urban sprawl observed over time.

About the author

Stefan Dech is director of the German Remote Sensing Data Center (DFD) since 1998, and current spokesman of the Earth Observation Center (EOC) at the German Aerospace Center (DLR). Since 2001 he has held the Chair for Remote Sensing at the Institute of Geography and Geology of the University of Wurzburg. Wolfgang Wagner is Professor of Thermodynamics at the Ruhr-University Bochum in the position of a chair. His efforts in the scientific working field cover the thermophysical properties of fluids (gases and liquids), in particular the multiparameter equations of state and highly-accurate density measurements over large ranges of temperature, pressure, and density. His research works have resulted in more than 150 publications including three books. Prof. Wagner is an active member of the International Association of the Properties of Water and Steam (IAPWS). Under his supervision, the "IAPWS Formulation 1995 for the Thermodynamic Properties of Ordinary Water Substance for General and Scientific Use" (IAPWS-95) and the "IAPWS Industrial Formulation 1997 for the Thermodynamic Properties of Water and Steam" (IAPWS-IF97) were developed. In 1998 he received the Honorary Fellow Award of IAPWS and in 2003 the Yeram S. Touloukian Award of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) for outstanding technical contributions in the field of thermophysical properties. Hans-Joachim Kretzschmar is Professor of Technical Thermodynamics at the Zittau/ Goerlitz University of Applied Sciences and specializes in the calculation of the properties for working fluids in heat cycles, boilers, and turbines. The property libraries for water and steam, humid air, and humid combustion gases developed by his group are used worldwide in more than 140 companies, universities, and other institutions. Prof. Kretzschmar is an active member of the International Association for the Properties of Water and Steam (IAPWS) and Vice Chairman of the IAPWS Working Group on "Thermophysical Propertiesof Water and Steam" (TPWS). As such, he was involved in the development of the industrial standard IAPWS-IF97. As chairman of the Task Group on "Supplementary Backward Equations for the Industrial Formulation IAPWS-IF97" he has coordinated the development of further backward equations for thermodynamic process modelling. His research group in Zittau developed the supplementary standards IAPWS-IF97-S01, -S03 and -S04.