eBook-Multiscale Hydrlogic Remote Sensing-Perspective and Applications

Multiscale Hydrlogic Remote Sensing-Perspective and Applications

Multiscale Hydrlogic Remote Sensing-Perspective and Applications

Contents

Preface ......................................................................................................................ix

About the Editors......................................................................................................xi

Contributors........................................................................................................... xiii

Chapter 1 Toward Multiscale Hydrologic Remote Sensing for Creating Integrated Hydrologic Observatories...................................................1

Ni-Bin Chang and Yang Hong

Part I Local-Scale Hydrological Remote Sensing

Chapter 2 Advanced Ground-Penetrating Radar for Soil Moisture Retrieval......9

Julien Minet, Khan Zaib Jadoon, François Jonard,

Mohammad Reza Mahmoudzadeh, Phuong Anh Tran,

and Sébastien Lambot

Chapter 3 Storm Impact on the Coastal Geomorphology and Current Field by Wave Field Image Sequences........................................................ 33

Stylianos Flampouris, Joerg Seemann, Christian Senet, and

Friedwart Ziemer

Chapter 4 Comparative Analysis of Surface Energy Balance Models for Actual Evapotranspiration Estimation through Remotely Sensed Images ................................................................................................65

Carmelo Cammalleri, Giuseppe Ciraolo, Antonino Maltese,

and Mario Minacapilli

Chapter 5 Thermal Radiation and Energy Closure Assessment in Evapotranspiration Estimation for Remote Sensing Validation ........87

John H. Prueger, Joe Alfieri, William Kustas, Lawrence Hipps,

Christopher Neale, Steven R. Evett, Jerry Hatfield,

Lynn G. McKee, and Jose L. Chavez

Part II Urban-Scale Hydrological Remote Sensing

Chapter 6 Spatiotemporal Interactions among Soil Moisture, Vegetation Cover, and Evapotranspiration in the Tampa Bay Urban Region, Florida .............................................................................................. 113

Ni-Bin Chang and Zhemin Xuan

Chapter 7 Developing a Composite Indicator with Landsat Thematic Mapper/Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus Images for Drought Assessment in a Coastal Urban Region ...........................................139

Zhiqiang Gao, Wei Gao, and Ni-Bin Chang

Part III Watershed-Scale Hydrological Remote Sensing

Chapter 8 Modeling Stream Flow Changes with the Aid of Multisourced Remote Sensing Data in a Poorly Gauged Watershed ..................... 169

Zhandong Sun, Christian Opp, Thomas Hennig, and Ni-Bin Chang

Chapter 9 MODIS-Based Snow Cover Products, Validation, and Hydrologic Applications .................................................................. 185

Juraj Parajka and Günter Blöschl

Chapter 10 Modeling Snowmelt Runoff under Climate Change Scenarios Using MODIS-Based Snow Cover Products.................................... 213

Russell J. Qualls and Ayodeji Arogundade

Chapter 11 Multispectral Satellite Data for Flood Monitoring and Inundation Mapping ......................................................................... 251

Sadiq Ibrahim Khan, Yang Hong, and Jiahu Wang

Part IV Regional-Scale Hydrological Remote Sensing

Chapter 12 Precipitation Estimate Using NEXRAD Ground-Based Radar Images: Validation, Calibration, and Spatial Analysis .................... 271

Xuesong Zhang

Chapter 13 Radar Polarimetry for Rain Estimation ...........................................303

Qing Cao and Guifu Zhang

Chapter 14 Airborne Water Vapor Differential Absorption Lidar ..................... 335

Xin Wang, Hans-Joachim Eichler, and Adalbert Ding

Part V Continental- and Global-Scale Hydrological Remote Sensing

Chapter 15 Global Precipitation Estimation and Applications........................... 371

Yang Hong, Sheng Chen, Xianwu Xue, and Gina Hodges

Chapter 16 Instantaneous Precipitation and Latent Heating Estimation over Land from Combined Spaceborne Radar and Microwave Radiometer Observations.................................................................387

Mircea Grecu, William S. Olson, and Chung-Lin Shie

Chapter 17 Global Soil Moisture Estimation Using Microwave Remote Sensing .............................................................................................399

Yang Hong, Sadiq Ibrahim Khan, Chun Liu, and Yu Zhang

Chapter 18 Microwave Vegetation Indices from Satellite Passive Microwave Sensors for Mapping Global Vegetation Cover................................ 411

Jiancheng Shi and Thomas J. Jackson

Chapter 19 Remote Sensing and Modeling of Global Evapotranspiration.........443

Qiaozhen Mu, Maosheng Zhao, and Steven W. Running

Chapter 20 Validation of Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Data for Assessment of Terrestrial Water Storage Variations .................. 481

Pat J.-F. Yeh, Qiuhong Tang, and Hyungjun Kim

Chapter 21 Remote Sensing of Soil and Vegetation Moisture from Space for Monitoring Drought and Forest Fire Events ....................................507

Lingli Wang, John J. Qu, and Xianjun Hao

Preface

Water connects physical, geochemical, and ecological processes with varying scales. During the last few decades, the scientific community has realized that obtaining a better understanding of two major complex issues across different scales in hydrologic cycle demands more research efforts. They include (1) how climate change impact could interrupt the hydrologic cycle and endanger the structure, function, and services provided by aquatic ecosystem; and (2) how hydrologic observatories may be adequately configured to overcome barriers when collecting necessary feedbacks within the constrained hydrologic systems with respect to multiple scales. The need to collect those positive or negative feed backs thus actuates more actions to enhance fundamental understanding of the complex interactions within and among natural and human systems. With this movement, concerns about the availability and quality of water to sustain life and to fuel economies motivate deepened research in hydrologic remote sensing that can accommodate an all-inclusive capability of sensing, monitoring, modeling, and decision making to mitigate the natural and human-induced stresses on the environment. This leads to the rapid development of integrated hydrologic observatories with synergistic functionality that may be brought in to fit various purposes of water-related scientific studies across space and time scales.

Hence, this book addresses work that has been conducted throughout the worldover the past decade,  such as

1. What are the local, watershed, and regional differences in soil moisture and evapotranspiration when using different measurement methods and models at different scales?

2. What are the potential impacts of coastal bathymetry associated with geomorphology, and how do these current and wave fields affect coastal areas?

3. How can the effects of land surface temperature, vegetation cover, evapotranspiration, and precipitation be collectively integrated to conduct ecohydrologic and drought assessment at urban regions with the aid of ground-based, airborne, and spaceborne remote sensing images?

4. How can the scenarios of global warming potential and the remote sensing products of snow water equivalent be fitted into the hydrologic modeling to address the changing flood and drought conditions in a watershed?

5. How can the images collected by different satellites be fused, synthesized, and integrated to promote the overall accuracy of predictions of hydrologic components in the hydrologic cycle at the global scale?

6. How well may the GRACE satellite exhibit with regard to showing an all- inclusive viewpoint to reveal the changes of total water storage in the hydrologic cycle?

7. With global evapotranspiration, soil moisture, and precipitation all available at the global scale, can GRACE outputs be smoothly translated into the corresponding hydrologic components coherently?

8. How can the extent and function of relevant satellite remote sensing images be incorporated and concatenated as an integral part of drought and forest fire monitoring systems?

On this foundation, many new techniques and methods developed for space borne, airborne, and ground-based measurements, mathematical modeling, and remote sensing image processing tools have been collectively presented across five distinctive topical areas in this book. The book will be a useful source of reference for undergraduate and graduate students and working professionals who are involved in the study of global change, hydrologic science, meteorology, climatology, biology, ecology, and agricultural and forest sciences. It will also be beneficial to scientists in related research fields, as well as professors, policy makers, and the general public.

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