Advances in Earth Observation of Global Change

1. The Role of Small Satellite Missions in Global Change Studies
Rainer Sandau, Klaus Briess

2. Spatial Pattern Analysis of Water-Driven Land Cover Change in Aridzone, Northwest of China
Qiming Zhou, Bo Sun

3. A Spatial Logistic Regression Model for Simulating Land Use Patterns: A Case Study of the Shiraz Metropolitan Area of Iran
Amin Tayyebi, Mahmoud Reza Delavar, Mohammad Javad Yazdanpanah, Bryan Christopher Pijanowski, Sara Saeedi, Amir Hossein Tayyebi

4. Abu Dhabi Island: Analysis of Development and Vegetation Change Using Remote Sensing (1972–2000)
Abdulhakim M. Abdi, Anand Nandipati

5. Remote Sensing of Coastal Water Quality in the Baltic Sea Using MERIS
Andreas Neumann, Harald Krawczyk, Stefan Riha

6. Remote Sensing for Water Quality Monitoring in Apalachicola Bay, USA
Wenrui Huang, Shuisen Chen, Xiaojun Yang

7. Extracting Cryospheric Information over Lowlands from L-Band Polarimetric SAR Data
Nicolas Longépé, Masanobu Shimada, Sophie Allain, Eric Pottier

8. Variability of Northern Hemisphere Spring Snowmelt Dates Using the AVHRR Polar Pathfinder Snow Cover During 1982–2004
Hongxu Zhao, Richard Fernandes

9. MODIS Snow Monitoring Over the Tibetan Plateau
Li Xu

10. The Global Geodetic Observing System (GGOS): Detecting the Fingerprints of Global Change in Geodetic Quantities
Hans -Peter Plag, Chris Rizos, Markus Rothacher, Ruth Neilan

11. Monitoring Radial Tectonic Motions of Continental Borders Around the Atlantic Ocean and Regional Sea Level Changes by Space Geodetic Observations
Zhigen Yang, Fengchun Shu

12. GNSS Activities for Natural Disaster Monitoring and Climate Change Detection at GFZ – An Overview
Junping Chen, Michael Bender, Geory Beyerle, Galina Dick, Carsten Falck, Maorong Ge, Gerd Gendt, Stefen Heise, Marbus Ramatschi, Torsten Schmidt, Ralf Stosius, Jens Wickert

13. Satellite Imagery for Landslide Mapping in an Earthquake-Struck Area
Xiaojun Yang

14. Relations Between Human Factors and Global Fire Activity
Emilio Chuvieco, Chris Justice

15. The Use of Remote Sensing Data and Meteorological Information for Food Security Monitoring, Examples in East Africa
Michel Massart, Felix Rembold, Oscar Rojas, Olivier Leo

16. Application of an Early Warning System for Floods
Adriana Albanese, Piero Boccardo, Fabio Giorgi, Nishshanka Prasanna Premachandra, Olivier Terzo, Rossella Vigna

17. L-Band and C-Band Combined Interferometric Monitoring of the Wenchuan Earthquake
Kui Zhang, Alex Hay-Man Ng, Linlin Ge, Yusen Dong, Chris Rizos

18. Uncovering the Space–Time Patterns of Change with the Use of Change Analyst – Case Study of Hong Kong
Bo Huang, Hua-Leung Sin

19. Change Detection of Sea Ice Distribution in SAR Imagery Using Semi-variogram of Intrinsic Regionalization Model
Yu Li, Jonathan Li

Keywords: Earth Sciences, Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry, Climate Change, Applied Earth Sciences, Geographical Information Systems/Cartography