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Contents
Part IV regional-Scale Hydrological remote
Sensing
Chapter 12 Precipitation Estimate Using NEXRAD Ground-Based Radar
Images: Validation, Calibration, and Spatial Analysis .................... 271
Xuesong Zhang
Chapter 13 Radar Polarimetry for Rain Estimation ........................................... 303
Qing Cao and Guifu Zhang
Chapter 14 Airborne Water Vapor Differential Absorption Lidar ..................... 335
Xin Wang, Hans-Joachim Eichler, and Adalbert Ding
Part V Continental- and Global-Scale
Hydrological remote Sensing
Chapter 15 Global Precipitation Estimation and Applications ........................... 371
Yang Hong, Sheng Chen, Xianwu Xue, and Gina Hodges
Chapter 16 Instantaneous Precipitation and Latent Heating Estimation
over Land from Combined Spaceborne Radar and Microwave
Radiometer Observations ................................................................. 387
Mircea Grecu, William S. Olson, and Chung-Lin Shie
Chapter 17 Global Soil Moisture Estimation Using Microwave Remote
Sensing ............................................................................................. 399
Yang Hong, Sadiq Ibrahim Khan, Chun Liu, and Yu Zhang
Chapter 18 Microwave Vegetation Indices from Satellite Passive Microwave
Sensors for Mapping Global Vegetation Cover ................................ 411
Jiancheng Shi and Thomas J. Jackson