• Contents (6)
• 1 Estimating environmental variables using thermal remote sensing (34)
• 2 Land surface temperature retrieval techniques and applications case of the AVHRR (56)
• 3 High spatial resolution mapping of surface energy balance components with remotely sensed data (133)
• 4 Estimating spatially distributed surface fluxes in a semi arid Great Basin desert using Landsat TM thermal data (156)
• 5 Coupling thermal infrared and visible satellite measurements to infer biophysical variables at the land surface (183)
• 6 Rapid soil drying and its implications for remote sensing of soil moisture and the surface energy fluxes (208)
• 7 Mapping surface energy fluxes with radiometric temperature (228)
• 8 Thermal infrared measurement as an indicator of plant ecosystem health (304)
• 9 Exergy analysis of ecosystems establishing a role for thermal remote sensing (330)
• 10 Calibration of thermal infrared sensors (410)
• 11 MUST a medium scale surface temperature mission dedicated to environment and agriculture (452)
• Epilogue (476)
• Index (478)