Chuvieco and Huete (2009): Fundamentals of Satellite Remote Sensing, Taylor and Francis Emilio Chuvieco and Alfredo Huete Fundamentals of Satellite Remote Sensing – Chapter 1

Chuvieco and Huete (2009): Fundamentals of Satellite Remote Sensing, Taylor and Francis What is remote sensing? Source: modis.nasa.gov

Chuvieco and Huete (2009): Fundamentals of Satellite Remote Sensing, Taylor and Francis Components of a remote sensing system DIGITAL PROCESSING Energy Source Receiving System End-users Earth´s cover’ Atmosphere VISUAL INTERPRETATION Remote Sensing Platform

Chuvieco and Huete (2009): Fundamentals of Satellite Remote Sensing, Taylor and Francis Balloon Plane Space Program Landsat-4 Space Shuttle Landsat-1 Sputnik Meteorological Satellites Space Station 2010 ERS-1 Commercial Satellites Pigeon camera Historical development of remote sensing systems

Chuvieco and Huete (2009): Fundamentals of Satellite Remote Sensing, Taylor and Francis This photo was taken by an automatic K-12 camera, using black-and-white infrared film, from a Viking sounding rocket that reached a height of 227 km. This scene spans parts of New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, California, and northwest Mexico (upper Gulf of California on the left). (From the NASA archive)

Chuvieco and Huete (2009): Fundamentals of Satellite Remote Sensing, Taylor and Francis The first Earthrise seen from the surface of the moon by the first Apollo Lunar landing mission Source: NASA

Chuvieco and Huete (2009): Fundamentals of Satellite Remote Sensing, Taylor and Francis ( Photograph taken by the Apollo-7 crew over lake Chad (central Africa) in 1968

Chuvieco and Huete (2009): Fundamentals of Satellite Remote Sensing, Taylor and Francis This QuickBird image shows the Royal Grand Palace in Bangkok, Thailand. Key identifiable features are all of the structures within the grounds, the palace walls, the guard towers, and walkways (Courtesy of DigitalGlobe).

Chuvieco and Huete (2009): Fundamentals of Satellite Remote Sensing, Taylor and Francis USA: Landsat, GOES, Space shuttle, Terra, Aqua, Ikonos, Quickbird, Geoeye. ESA: ERS-1 y 2, Envisat, Meteosat, MSG. France: Spot-4 y 5. India: IRS-6, Insat, Cartosat. Canadá: Radarsat-1 y 2. Russia: Spin-2, Resurs, Meteor. Japan: ALOS, GMS, Aqua. Brazil - China: CBERS, Fen Yung. Corea, Israel, Indonesia, Argentina... Current satellite missions

Chuvieco and Huete (2009): Fundamentals of Satellite Remote Sensing, Taylor and Francis Other sources of RS data Airborne (lidar, hiperspectral). Unmanned (UAV). Ground sensors

Chuvieco and Huete (2009): Fundamentals of Satellite Remote Sensing, Taylor and Francis Main journals

Chuvieco and Huete (2009): Fundamentals of Satellite Remote Sensing, Taylor and Francis Advantages of RS Global view. Multiscale observation. Frequent observation. Direct and non-destructive observation. Complete cover. Non-visible spectral regions. Height estimation.

Chuvieco and Huete (2009): Fundamentals of Satellite Remote Sensing, Taylor and Francis Global view

Chuvieco and Huete (2009): Fundamentals of Satellite Remote Sensing, Taylor and Francis Multiscale observation MODIS (500 m) - Landsat (30 m) – Ikonos (1 m) over San Francisco, CA. visibleearth.nasa.gov

Chuvieco and Huete (2009): Fundamentals of Satellite Remote Sensing, Taylor and Francis Source: Sequence of satellite images at different spatial resolutions over Tucson, Arizona. From MODIS (top), to Landsat-TM (lower left) and Ikonos (lower right).

Chuvieco and Huete (2009): Fundamentals of Satellite Remote Sensing, Taylor and Francis Frequent observation Snow cover MODIS

Chuvieco and Huete (2009): Fundamentals of Satellite Remote Sensing, Taylor and Francis (Courtesy: EOSAT). Landsat images from the Mississippi river nearby St. Louis showing the impact of the 1993 floods

Chuvieco and Huete (2009): Fundamentals of Satellite Remote Sensing, Taylor and Francis ( Multitemporal changes in Mount Kilimanjaro during the last decade Landsat-5 image acquired on Feb. 17, Landsat-7 image of Feb. 21, The snow cap formed some 11,000 years ago and has shrank by 80 percent in the past century

Chuvieco and Huete (2009): Fundamentals of Satellite Remote Sensing, Taylor and Francis (after Chuvieco et al. 2002). Tropical deforestation analysis of the western Venezuelan Llanos with Landsat imagery

Chuvieco and Huete (2009): Fundamentals of Satellite Remote Sensing, Taylor and Francis Tropical forest deforestation analysis with Landsat imagery over Rondônia, Brazil

Chuvieco and Huete (2009): Fundamentals of Satellite Remote Sensing, Taylor and Francis Non-destructive sampling LAI Chlorophyll Biomass Productivity …

Chuvieco and Huete (2009): Fundamentals of Satellite Remote Sensing, Taylor and Francis Real-time availability NOAA-AVHRR receiving antenna

Chuvieco and Huete (2009): Fundamentals of Satellite Remote Sensing, Taylor and Francis Height retrieval Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) (after Short, 2008) Interferogram of an area in the Kamchatka Peninsula Shaded relief 3D Perspective

Chuvieco and Huete (2009): Fundamentals of Satellite Remote Sensing, Taylor and Francis Limitations Only variables affecting radiance/distance are retrievable. Technical capabilities of current technology (spatial-temporal-spectral resolution). Surface observation (little depth penetration). Atmospheric influences.