ABSTRACT
Meteorological disasters often occur and affect human life, economy and construction, usually including climate disasters and derived disasters. Climate disasters are directly caused by severe weather, e.g., typhoons, rainstorms, thunderstorms, hail, drought, flood and other meteorological sudden changes. The derived meteorological disasters are mainly caused by meteorological factors, such as forest fires, debris flow and landslides. Traditional meteorological disaster monitoring techniques have high costs and are labor-intensive. Nowadays, 3S technology, namely Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), Remote Sensing (RS), and Geographic Information System (GIS), can provide a full range of meteorological observations and quickly obtain multi-platform, multi-temporal, multi-band, high-precision, and high-resolution massive space-time information. The combination of 3S technology observations plays a key role in meteorological monitoring and applications. In this chapter, a review on 3S technology and its applications in meteorology is given in detail as well as their opportunities and prospective.
