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Abbreviations
TRMM
Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission
AVHRR
Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer
GOME
Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment
GOMOS
Global Ozone Monitoring by Occultation of Stars
ERS
European Remote Sensing
SCIAMACHY Scanning Imaging Absorption Spectrometer for Atmospheric
Chartography
MODIS
Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer
SMOS
Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity
SPOT
Satellite Pour l’Observation de la Terre, “Satellite for observation
of Earth”
SARAL
Satellite with ARgos and ALtiKa
ALOS PALSAR Advanced Land Observation Satellite Phased Array type L-band
Synthetic Aperture Radar
AVIRIS
Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer
NISAR
NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar
JERS
Japanese Earth Resources Satellite
RISAT
Radar Imaging Satellite
ENVISAT
Environmental Satellite
IRS
Indian Remote Sensing
UNFCC
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
1 Background
Climate change is the prime issue in global warming and global environment due to
its associated vulnerability and biodiversity loss (IPCC 2007). UNFCCC (1992) has
defined climate change as the change that can be attributed directly or indirectly to
human activity that alters the composition of the global atmosphere and which is in
addition to natural climate variability observed over comparable time periods. India
is among one of the countries that has been predicted to be impacted severely due to
climate change in the near future because of its diverse physiographic conditions and
exploitation of natural resources at rapid pace (Puthucherril 2012; Saha and Talwar
2010). Climate change has profound impacts on the physical and biological systems
of aquatic, terrestrial and marine environments (Lolaksha and Anand 2017). The
effect may be direct on crop yield due to a change in temperature and increased pest
populations or indirect such as damage to agricultural crops caused by the increased
frequency of coastal flooding due to sea-level rise (IPCC 2007). Climate change
stands to alter ecosystem structure and function through numerous and diverse pathways (Post 2013).Changing the water availability, CO 2 concentration, tropical storm
G. Kumar et al.
Abbreviations
TRMM
Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission
AVHRR
Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer
GOME
Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment
GOMOS
Global Ozone Monitoring by Occultation of Stars
ERS
European Remote Sensing
SCIAMACHY Scanning Imaging Absorption Spectrometer for Atmospheric
Chartography
MODIS
Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer
SMOS
Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity
SPOT
Satellite Pour l’Observation de la Terre, “Satellite for observation
of Earth”
SARAL
Satellite with ARgos and ALtiKa
ALOS PALSAR Advanced Land Observation Satellite Phased Array type L-band
Synthetic Aperture Radar
AVIRIS
Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer
NISAR
NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar
JERS
Japanese Earth Resources Satellite
RISAT
Radar Imaging Satellite
ENVISAT
Environmental Satellite
IRS
Indian Remote Sensing
UNFCC
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
1 Background
Climate change is the prime issue in global warming and global environment due to
its associated vulnerability and biodiversity loss (IPCC 2007). UNFCCC (1992) has
defined climate change as the change that can be attributed directly or indirectly to
human activity that alters the composition of the global atmosphere and which is in
addition to natural climate variability observed over comparable time periods. India
is among one of the countries that has been predicted to be impacted severely due to
climate change in the near future because of its diverse physiographic conditions and
exploitation of natural resources at rapid pace (Puthucherril 2012; Saha and Talwar
2010). Climate change has profound impacts on the physical and biological systems
of aquatic, terrestrial and marine environments (Lolaksha and Anand 2017). The
effect may be direct on crop yield due to a change in temperature and increased pest
populations or indirect such as damage to agricultural crops caused by the increased
frequency of coastal flooding due to sea-level rise (IPCC 2007). Climate change
stands to alter ecosystem structure and function through numerous and diverse pathways (Post 2013).Changing the water availability, CO 2 concentration, tropical storm