Thermal Remote Sensing is a discipline with a growing user community

The book provides a comprehensive overview of available sensors, methods and applications

The book is of interest to environmental planners and decision makers, climatologists, hydrologists, ecologists, urban scientists, forest fire and other fire experts

1. Theoretical Background of Thermal Infrared Remote Sensing.- 2. Geometric Calibration of Thermographic Cameras.- 3. Thermal Infrared Spectroscopy in the Laboratory and Field in Support of Land Surface Remote Sensing.- 4. Challenges and Opportunities for UAV-Borne Thermal Imaging.- 5. NASA's Hyperspectral Thermal Emission Spectrometer (HyTES).- 6. NASA's Hyperspectral Infrared Imager (HyspIRI).- 7. Spaceborne Thermal Infrared Observation - An Overview of Most Frequently Used Sensors for Applied Research.- 8. Thermal Remote Sensing with Small Satellites: BIRD, TET and the next Generation BIROS.- 9. Landsat and Thermal Infrared Imaging.- 10. Review of High Resolution Thermal I.- Infrared Applications and Requirements:The Fuegosat Synthesis Study.- 11. Cross-Comparison of Daily Land Surface Temperature Products from NOAA-AVHRR and MODIS.- 12. Comparison of the Thermal Sensors of SEVIRI and MODIS for LST Mapping.- 13. A Water Vapor Scaling (WVS) Method for Improving Atmospheric Correction of Thermal Infrared (TIR) Data.- 14. Time Series Corrections and Analyses in Thermal Remote Sensing.- 15. Thermal Remote Sensing of Sea Surface Temperature.- 16. Soil Moisture from Thermal Infrared Satellite Data: Synergies with Microwave Data.- 17. Application of the Apparent Thermal Inertia Concept for Soil Moisture Estimation in Agricultural Areas.- 18. Thermal Remote Sensing of Active Vegetation Fires and Biomass Burning Events.-19. Analysis of Lava Flow Effusion Rate Using High Spatial Resolution Infrared Data.- 20. Thermal Analysis of Volcanoes Based on 10 Years of ASTER Data on Mt. Etna .- 21. Thermal Infrared Remote Sensing of Surface and Underground Coal Fires.- 22. Thermal Infrared Remote Sensing of Geothermal Systems.- 23. Analysis of Surface Thermal Patterns in Relation to Urban Structure Types: A Case Study for the City of Munich.- 24. Mineral Mapping with Airborne Hyperspectral Thermal Infrared Remote Sensing at Cuprite, Nevada, USA.- 25. Validation of Thermal Infrared (TIR) Emissivity Spectra Using Pseudo-Invariant Sand Dune Sites.- Index