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12 Earth Observation demands for improved water resources management
Wim G. Bastiaanssen and C. J. Perry
13 A biophysical process-based estimate of global land surface evaporation
using satellite and ancillary data
Bhaskar Choudhury
14 Remote sensing of land cover and land cover change
Barry K. Wyatt
15 Land-cover categories versus biophysical attributes to monitor land-cover
change by remote sensing
Eric Lambin
16 A new approach to characterize global land surfaces: Preliminary results from
AVHRR data
Nadine Gobron, Bernard Pinty and Michel M. Verstraete
17 Remote sensing requirements to support forest inventories
Erkki Tomppo
18 Some research and applications in the CSIRO (Australia) Earth Observation
Centre on scene brightness due to BRDF
David L. Jupp
19 Remote sensing of albedo using the BRDF in relation to land surface properties
Wolfgang Lucht, Crystal Schaaf, Alan Strahler and Robert E. d'Entremont
20 Experimental study of statistical characteristics of plant canopy radiation regime
Madis Sulev and Juhan Ross
21 Light scattering models and reflectance measurements in remote sensing of snow
Risto Kuittinen
22 Ray optics approximation for random clusters of Gaussian spheres
Karri Muinonen
23 Backscattering of light by snow: Field measurements
Jukka Piironen, Karri Muinonen, S. Keranen, H. Karttunen and Jouni Peltoniemi
24 Australian sites for the validation of satellite retrievals of the radiative properties of
land surfaces
Ian F. Grant, A. J. Prata, G. Rondeaux and M. D. Steven
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