Earth From Above: Using color-coded satellite images to examine the global environment: 0 - Softcover

Parkinson, Claire

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0935702415 ISBN 13: 9780935702415

Verlag: University Science Books,U.S., 1997

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Book by Parkinson Claire L

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Reseña del editor

Written by a NASA scientist, this is the first book specifically aimed at teaching the reader how to interpret the colour-coded maps produced from raw satellite data. The author identifies six major environmental topics - atmospheric ozone, polar sea ice, continental snow cover, sea surface temperatures, land vegetation and volcanoe - for which radiative data collected by satellites is providing new global information. By learning to read the illustrative examples, the reader should become capable of reading and understanding all well-labelled, colour-coded satellite images.

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This text aims to familiarize the uninitiated with satellite data and with the reading of colour-coded satellite images of the Earth. It gives a sense of how the raw data is converted into information about the Earth and the atmosphere, and shows the range of information being collected about the Earth through satellites. There is also coverage of six of the important topics in Earth/atmosphere studies now being examined with data from satellites: atmospheric ozone; polar sea ice; continental snow cover; sea surface temperatures; land vegetation; and volcanoes.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University Science Books,U.S.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0935702415
• ISBN 13: 9780935702415
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 192