11 Satellite-Based Ocean Surface Turbulent Fluxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Long S. Chiu, Si Gao, and Chung-Lin Shie
12 Satellite-Monitored Snow Cover in the Climate System . . . . . . . . . 183
Li Xu
13 Evapotranspiration Estimates from Remote Sensing
for Irrigation Water Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
Timothy C. Martin, Richard G. Allen, Larry E. Brazil,
J. Philip Burkhalter, and Jason S. Polly
14 Snow Cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Peter Romanov
15 Climate-Scale Oceanic Rainfall Based on Passive Microwave
Radiometry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
Long S. Chiu, Si Gao, and Dong-Bin Shin
16 Integrating Landsat with MODIS Products for Vegetation
Monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
Feng Gao
17 Satellite Applications for Detecting Vegetation Phenology . . . . . . . 263
Min Li and John J. Qu
18 Monitoring a Sentinel Species from Satellites: Detecting
Emiliania huxleyi in 25 Years of AVHRR Imagery . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277
Stephanie Schollaert Uz, Christopher W. Brown, Andrew K. Heidinger,
Tim J. Smyth, and Raghu Murtugudde
19 Land Surface Temperature (LST) Retrieval from GOES Satellite
Observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289
Donglian Sun and Yunyue Yu
20 Remote Sensing of Leaf, Canopy, and Vegetation Water Contents
for Satellite Environmental Data Records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335
E. Raymond Hunt Jr., Susan L. Ustin, and David Rian ˜o
21 Recent Advances and Challenges of Monitoring Climate Change
from Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359
John J. Qu, Alfred M. Powell Jr., and Mannava V.K. Sivakumar
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367
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