ABSTRACT
Extreme weather and climate change aggravate the frequency and magnitude of disasters. Facing atypical and more severe events, existing early warning and response systems become inadequate both in scale and scope. Earth Observation (EO) provides today information at global, regional and even basin scales related to agrometeorological hazards. This book focuses on drought, flood, frost, landslides, and storms/cyclones and covers different applications of EO data used from prediction to mapping damages as well as recovery for each category. It explains the added value of EO technology in comparison with conventional techniques applied today through many case studies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
section I|101 pages
Remote Sensing of Drought
chapter 3|16 pages
Drought Assessments by Coupling Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer Images and Weather Data
section II|106 pages
Remote Sensing of Frost and Sea Ice Hazards
section III|106 pages
Remote Sensing of Wildfires
chapter 12|23 pages
Remote Sensing of Fire Effects
section IV|100 pages
Remote Sensing of Floods
chapter 16|29 pages
Usefulness of Remotely Sensed Data for Extreme Flood Event Modeling
chapter 18|20 pages
Introducing Flood Susceptibility Index Using Remote-Sensing Data and Geographic Information Systems
section V|51 pages
Remote Sensing of Storms
chapter 22|13 pages
Radar Rainfall Estimates for Debris-Flow Early Warning Systems
section VI|46 pages
Remote Sensing of Landslides