Visibility: The Seeing of Near and Distant Landscape Features

by William Malm

Overview

Visibility: The Seeing of Near and Distant Landscape Features reviews the science of visibility from how to measure it quantitatively to its impacts by one of the foremost experts in the field. Carefully designed pedagogy allows a diversity of readers, from regulators to researchers to use this book to further their understanding of the field.

Topics covered include the interaction of light with the atmosphere and aerosols, the transfer of light through the atmosphere especially as it relates to non-uniform haze layers, perception questions, including visibility metrics, image processing techniques for purposes of visually displaying effects of haze on scenic landscapes, visibility monitoring techniques, and the history of visibility regulatory development.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780128044506
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	04/28/2016
Pages:	350
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Dr. William C Malm is a highly regarded research scientist/scholar at Colorado State University’s Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA). Previously he was at the National Park Service Air Resources Division where he was program coordinator for the visibility/particulate research and monitoring program. Prior to that, he worked as an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) research scientist and as a Professor of Environmental Science at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff.

He is a member of the Air & Waste Management Association (AWMA), the American Geophysical Union (AGU), and the American Association for Aerosol Research (AAAR). He has served as an organizing chair for special sessions in each of these associations and as a guest editor for the Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR) and the Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association (JAWMA). He is also a topic editor for environmental monitoring for the Encyclopedia of Earth

Table of Contents

1. Introduction2. On the Nature of Light3. How the Transfer of Light (Radiation) Through the Atmosphere Affects Visibility4. Visibility Metrics5. Human Perception of Haze and Landscape Features6. Image Processing Techniques for Displaying Haze Effects on Landscape Features7. Monitoring Visibility8. A Brief History of Visibility as an Esthetic Concern

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From the Publisher

Written by a pioneer in this field, this highly illustrated new work on visibility concepts provides new tools and the latest research on measuring and quantifying air quality as it relates to scenic landscape features, including discussions of perception questions, visibility metrics, and the history of visibility regulatory development