Remote sensing of terrestrial chlorophyll content

Dash, Jadunandan, Curran, Paul J. and Foody, Giles M. (2008) Remote sensing of terrestrial chlorophyll content. In, Cracknell, Arthur Philip, Krapivin, Vladimir F. and Varotsos, Costas (eds.) Global Climatology and Ecodynamics: Anthropogenic Changes to Planet Earth. (Springer Praxis Books) Berlin; Heidelberg, Germany. Springer, pp. 77-105. (doi:10.1007/978-3-540-78209-4).

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Abstract

Terrestrial chlorophyll content is a key environmental variable that has proved difficult to estimate accurately using remotely sensed data. Some of the pioneering studies in this field were undertaken by Professor Kirill Ya Kondratyev and co-workers in the 1970s and early 1980s. These studies paved the way for the operational global chlorophyll content maps of today. This chapter will start by investigating Professor Kondratyev’s contribution to the development of theory and practice in the remote sensing of terrestrial chlorophyll content. The reader will then be led through a quarter of a century of scientific research and end with a discussion of five contemporary applications of this research.

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