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Book SynopsisThis volume presents a broad overview of the requirements, capabilities, challenges and future directions of spaceborne imaging spectroscopy to explore the Earth’s surface for a range of application domains. These include mine exploration, soil mapping, vegetation monitoring, mapping of pollution and hazardous materials, inland and coastal water monitoring, urban applications and others. Imaging spectroscopy, also often termed hyperspectral remote sensing, for terrestrial Earth observation dates back to the 1980s, when the first spectrometers observing in the visible to shortwave infrared wavelength range were deployed on airborne platforms. From the end of the 1990s onwards, spaceborne hyperspectral missions have demonstrated the capability to provide information on the composition and biochemical and physical characteristics of the Earth’s surface. Today, several hyperspectral spaceborne missions are under development to be launched within the next few years. It can be expected that future global and frequent coverage of the Earth’s surface with spaceborne imaging spectroscopy data will bring a major advance in the information depth that future Earth system models and monitoring service developments can be based on.
Previously published in
Surveys in Geophysics, Volume 40, Issue 3, 2019
The chapters "Imaging Spectrometry of Inland and Coastal Waters: State of the Art, Achievements and Perspectives", "Imaging Spectroscopy for the Detection, Assessment and Monitoring of Natural and Anthropogenic Hazards", "Assessing Vegetation Function with Imaging Spectroscopy", "Spaceborne Imaging Spectroscopy for Sustainable Agriculture: Contributions and Challenges" are available as open access articles under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com.
Table of ContentsGuest Editorial: International Space Science Institute (ISSI) Workshop on Space-borne Imaging Spectroscopy for exploring the Earth’s Ecosystems (Saskia Foerster, Luis Guanter, Teodolina Lopez, Jose Moreno, Michal Rast, Michael Schaepman)
Earth observation imaging spectroscopy for terrestrial systems – An overview of its history, techniques, and applications of its missions (Michael Rast, Thomas H. Painter).
Retrieval of Atmospheric Parameters and Surface Reflectance from Visible and Shortwave Infrared Imaging Spectroscopy Data (David R. Thompson, Luis Guanter, Alexander Berk, Bo-Cai Gao, Rudolf Richter, Daniel Schläpfer, Kurtis J. Thome)
Assessing Vegetation Function with Imaging Spectroscopy (Gamon, J., Somers, B., Malenovsky, Z., Middleton, E., Rascher, U., & Schaepman, M.E.)
Imaging Spectroscopy of Forest Ecosystems: Perspectives for the Use of Spaceborne Hyperspectral Earth Observation Systems (Joachim Hill, Henning Buddenbaum, Philip Townsend)
Spaceborne Imaging Spectroscopy for Sustainable Agriculture: Contributions and Challenges (Tobias B. Hank, Katja Berger, Heike Bach, Jan G.P.W. Clevers, Anatoly Gitelson, Pablo Zarco-Tejada, Wolfraum Mauser).
Quantifying Vegetation Biophysical Variables from Imaging Spectroscopy Data: A Review on Retrieval Methods (Jochem Verrelst, Zbyněk Malenovský, Christiaan Van der Tol, Gustau Camps-Valls, Jean-Philippe Gastellu-Etchegorry, Philip Lewis, Peter North, Jose Moreno)
Variability and uncertainty challenges in upscaling imaging spectroscopy observations from leaves to vegetation canopies (Zbyněk Malenovský) (title and list of authors may change).
Imaging Spectroscopy for Soil Mapping and Monitoring (S. Chabrillat, E. Ben-Dor, J. Cierniewski, C. Gomez, T. Schmid, B. van Wesemael)
Imaging Spectrometry of Inland and Coastal Waters: State of the Art, Achievements and Perspectives (C. Giardino , V. E. Brando, P. Gege, N. Pinnel, E. Hochberg, E. Knaeps, I. Reusen, R. Doerffer, M. Bresciani, F. Braga, S. Foerster, N. Champollion, A. Dekker)
Imaging Spectroscopy for the Detection, Assessment and Monitoring of Natural and Anthropogenic Hazards (C. Ong V. Carrère, S. Chabrillat, R. Clark, T. Hoefen, R. Kokaly, R. Marion, C. R. Souza Filho,G. Swayze, D.R. Thompson)
Imaging Spectroscopy of Urban Environments (S. van der Linden, A. Okujeni, F. Canters, J. Degerickx, U. Heiden, P. Hostert, F. Priem, B. Somers, F. Thiel)
Synergies of Spaceborne Imaging Spectroscopy with Other Remote Sensing Approaches (Luis Guanter, Maximilian Bell, Jonathan C.-W. Chan, Claudia Giardino, José Gomez-Dans, Christian Mielke, Felix Morsdorf, Karl Segl, Naoto Yokoya)
