Advances in Land Remote Sensing, 2008 System, Modeling, Inversion and Application

Recent advances in Land Remote Sensing: an overview Part 1: Remote Sensing Systems 2. Passive microwave remote sensing for land applications (Jackson) 3. Active microwave RS systems and applications to snow monitoring (Shi) 4. Multi-angular thermal infrared observations of terrestrial vegetation (Menenti) 5. Terrestrial Applications of Multiangle remote sensing (Chopping) Part 2: Physical modeling and inversion algorithms 6. Forest reflectance modeling and inversion (Stenberg) 7. Methodologies for inverting biophysical variables (Baret) 8. Knowledge database and inversion (Wang) 9. Methodologies for estimating broadband albedo (Schaaf) 10. Potential of thermal infrared remote sensing for the monitoring of land surface processes (Jacob) 11. Data fusion and integration methodologies (Vesteinsson) 12. Data assimilation methods for estimating land surface variables (Liang & Qin) 13. Methodologies for mapping land cover and land use and change (Lam) 14. Methodologies for mapping plant functional types (Sun & Liang) Part 3: remote sensing applications 15. Agricultural applications (Chen) 16. NPP and carbon cycle applications (Zhao & Running) 17. Applications to climate studies (Dickinson) 18. Lessons from application case studies (Townshend)