Soil is one of the most important natural resources covering a large area of the land surface. Soil plays a vital role in biosphere processes, such as energy balance, hydrology, biochemistry, and biological productivity. It supports plants that supply foods, fibers, drugs, and some other human needs. Conversely, desert regions include about one third of earth lands and these regions have increa...

1. Introduction The number of satellite missions dedicated to remote sensing (or Earth Observation (EO)) has increased significantly over the past decade and will further increase over the coming decade and beyond. Data from these missions offer the potential for contributing to the security of human existence on Earth in different ways. Although there have been many demonstrations of the value...

Oceanic Remote Sensing Remote sensing is a technique based on measuring the electromagnetic energy reflected or emitted by the surface of geographic space (Caloz and Collet, 2003). Satellites are able to sense an array of parameters including ocean color, sea-surface temperature, sea-surface irradiance, sea-surface topography, and winds (Simpson, 1992). Satellite ocean color remote sensing is b...

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Title of Thesis: MAPPING SNOW COVER IN SIBERIA USING GIS AND REMOTE SENSING Aditya Saini, Master of Science, 2003 Thesis directed by: Associate Professor Kaye L. Brubaker Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering The seasonal snowpack dynamics of the Siberian mountains and plains play a critical role in the freshwater fluxes of northern rivers into the Arctic Ocean. This study is part o...

Satellite remote sensing data has significant potential use in analysis of natural hazards such as landslides. Relying on the recent advances in satellite remote sensing and geographic information system (GIS) techniques, this paper aims to map landslide susceptibility over most of the globe using a GIS-based weighted linear combination method. First, six relevant landslide-controlling factors ...

Academic libraries are a prime example of an enterprise whose mission is to support the information needs of its institution. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and remote sensing (RS) are popular topics for academic research and are used globally. Two major enterprise information service and data delivery models, centralized and distributed, describe how enterprises approach information shar...

With the rapid development of the oil industry and oil transportation, oil well blowout and marine oil spill accidents ca·used a lot of environmental damage in recent years, so there is a growing demand for oil spill disaster emergency response. It is difficult to monitor oil spill by conventional ways in real time due to the large range of oil spill, so remote sensing technology becomes the mo...