Remote Sensing Applications in Environmental Research

Remote Sensing Applications in Environmental Research is the basis for advanced Earth Observation (EO) datasets used in environmental monitoring and research. Now that there are a number of satellites in orbit, EO has become imperative in today’s sci

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Prashant K. Srivastava Saumitra Mukherjee Manika Gupta Tanvir Islam Editors

Remote Sensing Applications in Environmental Research

Society of Earth Scientists Series

Series editor Satish C. Tripathi, Lucknow, India

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The Society of Earth Scientists Series aims to publish selected conference proceedings, monographs, edited topical books/text books by leading scientists and experts in the field of geophysics, geology, atmospheric and environmental science, meteorology and oceanography as Special Publications of The Society of Earth Scientists. The objective is to highlight recent multidisciplinary scientific research and to strengthen the scientific literature related to Earth Sciences. Quality scientific contributions from all across the Globe are invited for publication under this series.

Prashant K. Srivastava Saumitra Mukherjee Manika Gupta Tanvir Islam •



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Editors Prashant K. Srivastava Hydrological Sciences ESSIC/NASA GSFC Greenbelt, MD USA

Manika Gupta Civil Engineering Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) New Delhi India

Saumitra Mukherjee School of Environmental Sciences Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi India

Tanvir Islam Atmospheric Sciences CIRA/NOAA College Park, MD USA

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