ABSTRACT
This chapter emphasizes on satellite remote sensing that is more informative than most of other methods in view of global observations of turbulence. Remote sensing is a vast area of natural science and technology which is incredibly attractive, progressive, highly producible, demandable, and well organized across the world. The reason is a great opportunity to explore our environments from the distance – air or space, providing global geophysical monitoring and ecological forecasting that cannot be achieved using in situ observations. Remote sensing technology operates with a wide variety of platforms, instruments, and techniques. Compared to aircraft or other low-altitude platforms, satellites have advantages and many unique characteristics which make them primary tool for global, systematic, and efficient observations of the Earth’s environments. The radiative transfer equation constitutes the physical basis of optical and microwave remote sensing techniques due to its relative simplicity and capability to deal with multiple-scattering effects.
