Table of Contents
List of Contributors vii
Preface xi
1 Earth Observation for Land and Emergency Monitoring Core Services 1Heiko Balzter
Part I Forest Monitoring 5
2 Methodology for Regional to Global Mapping of Aboveground Forest Biomass: Integrating Forest Allometry, Ground Plots, and Satellite Observations 7P. Rodriguez-Veiga, S. Saatchi, J. Wheeler, K. Tansey and Heiko Balzter
3 Remote Sensing for Aboveground Biomass Estimation in Boreal Forests 33M.A. Stelmaszczuk-Górska, C.J. Thiel and C.C. Schmullius
4 Forest Mapping of the Congo Basin using Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) 57J. Wheeler, P. Rodriguez-Veiga, Heiko Balzter, K. Tansey and N.J. Tate
Part II Land Cover and Land Cover Change Monitoring 75
5 Multi-Frequency SAR Applications for Land Cover Classification Within Copernicus Downstream Services 77B.F. Spies, A. Lamb and Heiko Balzter
6 Unsupervised Land Use/Land Cover Change Detection with Integrated Pixel and Object Based Approaches for High Resolution Remote Sensing Imagery 101S. Shrestha, C. Smith and Z. Bochenek
7 Earth Observation Land Data Assimilation System (EO-LDAS) Regularization Constraints over Barrax Site 117M. Chernetskiy, N. Gobron, J. Gómez-Dans, P. Lewis and C.C. Schmullius
Part III Coastal Zone and Freshwater Monitoring 141
8 SAR-Based EO of Salt Marsh Habitats in Support of Integrated Coastal Zone Management 143S.J. van Beijma, A. Comber and A. Lamb
9 A Framework for Lakeshore Vegetation Assessment Using Field Spectroscopy and Airborne Hyperspectral Imagery 159D. Stratoulias, I. Keramitsoglou, P. Burai, L. Csaba, A. Zlinszky, V.R. Tóth and Heiko Balzter
10 Copernicus Framework for Monitoring Lake Balaton Phytoplankton 173S.C.J. Palmer, A. Zlinszky, Heiko Balzter, V. Nicolás-Perea and V.R. Tóth
Part IV Land Deformation Mapping and Humanitarian Crisis Response 193
11 InSAR Techniques for Land Deformation Monitoring 195P. Kourkouli, U. Wegmüller, A. Wiesmann and K. Tansey
12 Mapping Land Surface Displacements in the Swiss Alps with Radar Interferometry 209J. Papke, T. Strozzi and N.J. Tate
13 Sample Supervised Search-Centric Approaches in Geographic Object-Based Image Analysis: Concepts, State of the Art and a Future Outlook 223C. Fourie and E. Schoepfer
Part V Earth Observation for Climate Adaptation 245
14 Remote Sensing of Wetland Dynamics as Indicators of Water Availability in Semi-Arid Africa 247L. Moser, A. Schmitt, S. Voigt and E. Schoepfer
15 Satellite Derived Information for Drought Detection and Estimation of Water Balance 285M. Ofwono, K. Dabrowska-Zielinska, J. Kaduk and V. Nicolás-Perea
16 Conclusions 301Heiko Balzter
Index 305