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Satellite Altimetry for Earth Sciences
Satellite altimetry is a radar technique for measuring the topography of the Earth’s surface. It was initially designed for measuring the ocean’s topography, with reference to an ellipsoid, and for the determination of the marine geoid. Satellite altimetry has provided extremely valuable information on ocean science (e.g., circulation surface geostrophic currents, eddy structures, wave heights, and the propagation of oceanic Kelvin and Rossby waves). With more than 25 years of observations, it is also becoming vital to climate research, providing accurate measurements of sea level variations from regional to global scales. Altimetry has also demonstrated a strong potential for geophysica...
Geodetic Sciences
Advances in space-borne technologies lead to improvements in observations and have a notable impact on geodesy and its applications. As a consequence of these improvements in data accuracies, spatial and temporal resolutions, as well as the developments in the methodologies, more detailed analyses of the Earth and a deeper understanding of its state and dynamic processes are possible today. From this perspective, this book is a collection of the selected reviews and case-study articles that report the advances in methodology and applications in geodesy. The chapters in the book are mainly dedicated to the Earth’s gravity field theory and applications, sea level monitoring and analysis, navigation satellite systems data and applications, and monitoring networks for tectonic deformations. This collection is a current state analysis of the geodetic research in theory and applications in today’s modern world.
Climate Change Effects on Groundwater Resources
Climate change is expected to modify the hydrological cycle and affect freshwater resources. Groundwater is a critical source of fresh drinking water for almost half of the world’s population and it also supplies irrigated agriculture. Groundwater is also important in sustaining streams, lakes, wetlands, and associated ecosystems. But despite this, knowledge about the impact of climate change on groundwater quantity and quality is limited. Direct impacts of climate change on natural processes (groundwater recharge, discharge, storage, saltwater intrusion, biogeochemical reactions, chemical fate and transport) may be exacerbated by human activities (indirect impacts). Increased groundwater ...
Earth Observation for Water Resource Management in Africa
This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "Earth Observation for Water Resource Management in Africa" that was published in Remote Sensing
Water Resources Management and Modeling
Hydrology is the science that deals with the processes governing the depletion and replenishment of water resources of the earth's land areas. The purpose of this book is to put together recent developments on hydrology and water resources engineering. First section covers surface water modeling and second section deals with groundwater modeling. The aim of this book is to focus attention on the management of surface water and groundwater resources. Meeting the challenges and the impact of climate change on water resources is also discussed in the book. Most chapters give insights into the interpretation of field information, development of models, the use of computational models based on analytical and numerical techniques, assessment of model performance and the use of these models for predictive purposes. It is written for the practicing professionals and students, mathematical modelers, hydrogeologists and water resources specialists.
Land Surface Remote Sensing in Continental Hydrology
The continental hydrological cycle is one of the least understood components of the climate system. The understanding of the different processes involved is important in the fields of hydrology and meteorology.In this volume the main applications for continental hydrology are presented, including the characterization of the states of continental surfaces (water state, snow cover, etc.) using active and passive remote sensing, monitoring the Antarctic ice sheet and land water surface heights using radar altimetry, the characterization of redistributions of water masses using the GRACE mission, the potential of GNSS-R technology in hydrology, and remote sensing data assimilation in hydrologica...
Microwave Remote Sensing of Land Surfaces
Microwave Remote Sensing of Land Surface: Techniques and Methods brings essential coverage of the space techniques of observation on continental surfaces. The authors explore major applications and provide detailed chapters on physical principles, physics of measurement, and data processing for each technique, bringing readers up-to-date descriptions of techniques used by leading scientists in the field of remote sensing and Earth observation. - Presents clear-and-concise descriptions of modern methods - Explores current remote sensing techniques that include physical aspects of measurement (theory) and their applications - Provides physical principles, measurement, and data processing chapters that are included for each technique described
Haute Agora
Haute Agora, étude menée par l’architecte Jean-Christophe Quinton avec les ingénieurs du bureau Bollinger + Grohmann, explore le potentiel des grandes structures pour accueillir les activités humaines. Le projet conjugue et imagine simultanément de nouveaux systèmes techniques plus vertueux, plus économes en matière et une étude pour une plus grande diversité d’usages des espaces dans les constructions de grande hauteur. Cette recherche initiée il y a un an, convoque ainsi les ressources propres de l’architecture et de l’ingénierie, de la mesure et de l’espace, de la verticalité et des milieux potentiels qu’elle génère. Elle se traduit dans une géométrie capable ...
Observation des surfaces continentales par télédétection micro-onde
Second volume d'une série de six ouvrages, Observation des surfaces continentales par télédétection micro-ondeprésente les principes physiques et techniques de différents types de capteurs micro-ondes : les radars à synthèse d’ouverture (RSO), l’altimétrie satellitaire radar, les micro-ondes passives, la gravimétrie spatiale, la réflectométrie GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System). L’ouvrage aborde également la reconstruction des modèles numériques de terrain à partir de mesures RSO et propose une description des méthodes d’assimilation des données spatiales dans les modèles.
Observation des surfaces continentales par télédétection II
Les réservoirs hydrologiques continentaux jouent un rôle essentiel pour la vie sur Terre. Cependant, le cycle hydrologique continental reste l’une des composantes les moins bien connues du système climatique. Cet ouvrage présente les principales applications de la télédétection pour l’hydrologie continentale. Après avoir étudié la caractérisation des états des surfaces continentales par télédétection active et passive, il aborde l’application de l’observation spatiale dans le suivi des eaux de surface et des eaux souterraines : suivi de l’Antarctique par altimétrie radar, caractérisation des redistributions de masse d’eau par la mission GRACE, potentiel de la technique GNSS-R en hydrologie. L’assimilation des mesures et produits de télédétection dans les modèles de fonctionnement de différents processus liés au cycle de l’eau est également détaillée.
