Remote sensing of the cryosphere / (Record no. 208759)

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International Standard Book Number 9781118368862
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International Standard Book Number 111836886X
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International Standard Book Number 9781118368886
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International Standard Book Number 1118368886
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International Standard Book Number 9781118368909
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International Standard Book Number 1118368908
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International Standard Book Number 1118368851
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International Standard Book Number 9781118368855
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245 00 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Remote sensing of the cryosphere /
Statement of responsibility, etc. edited by M. Tedesco, City College of New York, New York, US. ; series editor: Dr. Peter Knight, University of Keele.
260 #1 - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc. Hoboken, NJ :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Wiley Blackwell,
Date of publication, distribution, etc. [2014]
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Extent 1 online resource.
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Cover; Wiley-Blackwell Cryosphere Science Series; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; List of contributors; Cryosphere Science: Series Preface; Preface; Acknowledgments; About the companion website; Chapter 1: Remote sensing and the cryosphere; Summary; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Remote sensing; 1.3 The cryosphere; References; Chapter 2: Electromagnetic properties of components of the cryosphere; Summary; 2.1 Electromagnetic properties of snow; 2.2 Electromagnetic properties of sea ice; 2.3 Electromagnetic properties of freshwater ice; 2.4 Electromagnetic properties of glaciers and ice sheets.
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Formatted contents note 2.5 Electromagnetic properties of frozen soilReferences; Acronyms; Websites cited; Chapter 3: Remote sensing of snow extent; Summary; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Visible/near-infrared snow products; 3.3 Passive microwave products; 3.4 Blended VNIR/PM products; 3.5 Satellite snow extent as input to hydrological models; 3.6 Concluding remarks; Acknowledgments; References; Acronyms; Websites cited; Chapter 4: Remote sensing of snow albedo, grain size, and pollution from space; Summary; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Forward modeling; 4.3 Local optical properties of a snow layer; 4.4 Inverse problem.
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Formatted contents note 4.5 Pitfalls of retrievals4.6 Conclusions; Acknowledgments; References; Acronyms; Websites cited; Chapter 5: Remote sensing of snow depth and snow water equivalent; Summary; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Photogrammetry; 5.3 LiDAR; 5.4 Gamma radiation; 5.5 Gravity data; 5.6 Passive microwave data; 5.7 Active microwave data; 5.8 Conclusions; References; Acronyms; Websites cited; Chapter 6: Remote sensing of melting snow and ice; Summary; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 General considerations on optical/thermal and microwave sensors and techniques for remote sensing of melting.
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Formatted contents note 6.3 Remote sensing of melting over land6.4 Remote sensing of melting over Greenland; 6.5 Remote sensing of melting over Antarctica; 6.6 Conclusions; References; Acronyms; Chapter 7: Remote sensing of glaciers; Summary; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Fundamentals; 7.3 Satellite instruments for glacier research; 7.4 Methods; 7.5 Glaciers of the Greenland ice sheet; 7.6 Summary; References; Acronyms; Websites cited; Chapter 8: Remote sensing of accumulation over the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets; Summary; 8.1 Introduction to accumulation.
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Formatted contents note 8.2 Spaceborne methods for determining accumulation over ice sheets8.3 Airborne and ground-based measurements of accumulation; 8.4 Modeling of accumulation; 8.5 The future for remote sensing of accumulation; 8.6 Conclusions; References; Acronyms; Website cited; Chapter 9: Remote sensing of ice thickness and surface velocity; Summary; 9.1 Introduction; 9.2 Radar principles; 9.3 Pulse compression; 9.4 Antennas; 9.5 Example results; 9.6 SAR and array processing; 9.7 SAR Interferometry; 9.8 Conclusions; References; Acronyms; Chapter 10: Gravimetry measurements from space; Summary.
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Keyword Cryosphere
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Keyword Climatic changes.
650 #4 - SUBJECT
Keyword Cryosphere
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Keyword Cryosphere.
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Keyword SCIENCE
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Keyword SCIENCE
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Tedesco, M.,
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Knight, Peter,
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url https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118368909
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