Remote Sensing of the Terrestrial Hydrologic Cycle

• Other Authors: Tang, Qiuhong (Editor), Qi, Youcun (Editor), Wang, Zhihui (Editor), Pan, Yun (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2020
• Subjects: Research & information: general; Geography; hydrological cycle; Three-North region; climate change; land cover change; Variable Infiltration Capacity (VIC) model; evapotranspiration; runoff; soil moisture; three-temperature model; infrared remote sensing; urban hedges; cooling effects; irrigation mapping; remote sensing; random forest; subhumid region; dry-wet regime; vegetation dynamics; GLDAS; GIMMS; Yarlung Zangbo River; Microwave emissivity difference vegetation index (EDVI); evapotranspiration (ET); satellite remote sensing; cloudy sky; clouds and earth's radiation energy system (CERES); ChinaFLUX; precipitation classification; K-nearest neighbor; Doppler radar; Tropical Precipitation Measurement Mission (TRMM); irrigation signal; SMAP; irrigation intensity; winter wheat; precipitation; evaluation; error analysis; Fengyun; quantitative precipitation estimates; GPM; IMERG; deep learning; Daihai Lake; Huangqihai Lake; lake degradation; weather radar quantitative precipitation estimation; rain gauge; radar-rain gauge merging; leave-one-out cross validation; verification; China; exorheic catchments; water balance; GRACE; terrestrial water storage changes; reservoir storage; MODIS; SRTM; n/a
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This book provides a practical introduction to remote sensing applications for detecting changes in the terrestrial water cycle and understanding the causes and consequences of these changes. Covering a wide range of innovative remote sensing approaches for hydrological study, this book contributes...