Water remote sensing

Rather different circumstances are encountered when considering THz remote sensing of extraterrestrial sources. The major source of THz opacity in the Earth s atmosphere is water vapour, and from either high, dry mountain sites or from space there are windows in which the background becomes very small. Incoherent instruments which detect the faint emission from astronomical sources can therefore be considerably more sensitive than their laboratory... 

Waters J W 1993 Miorowave limb sounding Atmospheric Remote Sensing by Microwave Radiometry ed M A Janssen (New York Wiley) pp 383-496... 

Indian Remote Sensing (IRS) Satellite For resource monitoring and management. IRS Satellite provides a convenient platform for rapid resource survey-minerals, water, agriculture, forest etc. covering large areas and in sufficient detail. 

Schultz. G.A.. E.T. Engman Remote Sensing in Hydrology and Water Management, Springer-Verlag. Inc., New York. NY. 2000. 

Sediment stratigraphy controls the hydrate distribution at Hydrate Ridge. The methane-rich migration pathway of Horizon A provides enriched hydrate formation relative to other sediments. In Figure 7.26, the remote sensing logs (gamma ray, density, RAB, and Archie water saturation) are most sensitive to hydrates. 

Localized remote sensing for chemical compositions in operating PEMFC can be performed by tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy (TDLAS). Measurement of water vapor and carbon dioxide has been reported by using TDLAS.31-36 In TDLAS measurement, the absorption of the laser beam passing through the gas sample is expressed with the partial pressure of the absorbing species, Pa (atm), by Beer s law,... 

Preparation and application of new spaceborne remote-sensing equipment to measure the water content in the troposphere and lower stratosphere. For example, the Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS) carried by the Aura satellite launched in 2004. 

Krapivin V.F. and Phillips G.W. (2001a). A remote sensing-based expert system to study the Aral-Caspian aquageosystem water regime. Remote Sensing of Environment, 75, 201-215. 

Parkinson C.L. (2003). Aqua An Earth-observing satellite mission to examine water and other climate variables. IEEE Trans, on Geosci. and Remote Sensing, 41(2), 173-183. 

Shibayama, M., Takahashi, W., Morinaga, S. and Akiyama, T. (1993) Canopy water deficit detection in paddy rice using high resolution field spectroradiometer. Remote Sensing Environ. 45, 117-26. 

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