Remote Sensing for Environmental Sciences
The public's serious concern about the uncertainties and dangers of the conse quences of human activities on environmental quality demands policies to control the situation and to prevent its deterioration. But far-reaching decisions on the environmental
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Volume 18
Remote Sensing for Environm.ental Sciences Edited by Erwin Schanda
Contributors R. T. H. Collis· D. J. Creasey· R. L. Grasty Ph. Hartl· G. P. de Loor· P. B. Russell A. E. Salerno· E. Schanda . P. W. Schaper
With 178 Figures
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg New York 1976
The picture on the cover is part of Fig. 19 on page 334.
ISBN -13 :978-3-642-66238-6 e-ISBN-13 :978-3-642-66236-2 DOl: 10.1007/978-3-642-66236-2
Distributed in the British Commonwealth Market by Chapman & Hall Limited, London. Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data. Main entry under title: Remote sensing for environmental sciences. (Ecological studies; v. 18). Includes bibliographies and index. 1. Remote sensing systems. I. Schanda, Erwin. II. Collis, Ronald Thomas, 1920- . III. Series. QH541.15.R4R39. 621.36'7. 75-37553. This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically those of translation, reprinting, re-use of illustrations, broadcasting, reproducing by photocopying machine of similar means, and storage in data banks. Under § 54 of the German Copyright Law where copies are made for other than private use, a fee is payable to the publisher, the amount of the fee to be determined by agreement with the publisher.
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Preface
The public's serious concern about the uncertainties and dangers of the consequences of human activities on environmental quality demands policies to control the situation and to prevent its deterioration. But far-reaching decisions on the environmental policy are impaired or even made impossible as long as the relevant ecological relations are not sufficiently understood and large-scale quantitative information on the most important parameters is not available in sufficient quality and quantity. The techniques of remote sensing offer new ways of procuring data on natural phenomena with three main advantages -
the large distance between sensor and object prevents interference with the environmental conditions to be measured, the potentiality for large-scale and even global surveys yields a new dimension for the investigations of the environmental parameters, the extremely wide, spectral range covered by the whole diversity of sensors discloses many properties of the environmental media not detectable within a single wave band (as e.g. the visible).
These significant additions to the conventional methods of environmental studies and the particular qualification of several remote sensing methods for quantitative determination of the natural parameters makes this new investigation technique an important tool both to the scientists studying the ecological relationship and the administratio
