Land Remote Sensing and Global Environmental Change NASA's Earth Obs

Global environmental change remains a constant theme that resonates worldwide. The dynamics of the Earth system fosters complex spatio-temporal variations that highlight the significance of, and the need to monitor the Earth as a unified whole. Accurate,

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Remote Sensing and Digital Image Processing VOLUME 11 Series Editor:

EARSeL Series Editor:

Freek D. van der Meer Department of Earth Systems Analysis International Instituite for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC) Enchede, The Netherlands & Department of Physical Geography Faculty of Geosciences Utrecht University The Netherlands

André Marçal Department of Applied Mathematics Faculty of Sciences University of Porto Porto, Portugal

Editorial Advisory Board:

EARSeL Editorial Advisory Board:

Michael J. Abrams NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.

Mario A. Gomarasca CNR - IREA Milan, Italy

Paul Curran University of Bournemouth, U.K. Arnold Dekker CSIRO, Land and Water Division Canberra, Australia Steven M. de Jong Department of Physical Geography Faculty of Geosciences Utrecht University, The Netherlands Michael Schaepman Department of Geography University of Zurich, Switzerland

For other titles published in this series, go to http://www.springer.com/series/6477

Martti Hallikainen Helsinki University of Technology Finland Håkan Olsson Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Sweden Eberhard Parlow University of Basel Switzerland Rainer Reuter University of Oldenburg Germany

Land Remote Sensing and Global Environmental Change NASA’s Earth Observing System and the Science of ASTER and MODIS

Editors Bhaskar Ramachandran NASA LP DAAC, USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science Center, Sioux Falls, SD 57198, USA

Christopher O. Justice University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA

Michael J. Abrams NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA

Editors Bhaskar Ramachandran NASA LP DAAC, USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science Center Sioux Falls, SD 57198, USA [email protected]

Michael J. Abrams NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA [email protected]

Christopher O. Justice Department of Geography, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA [email protected]

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