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Publisher: Farrar Straus / Book of the Month Club, 1989; Large Prt. edition (1989)
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Many are useful for disaster monitoring — thermal sensors spot active fires, infrared sensors can pick up floods, and microwave sensors (that penetrate clouds and smoke) can be used to measure earth deformations before and during earthquakes or volcanic eruptions (see Table 2).
Wavelength |
Waveband |
Useful for |
Example sensors |
Visible |
0.4-0.7mm |
Vegetation mapping |
SPOT; Landsat TM |
Building stock assessment |
AVHRR; MODIS; IKONOS |
||
Population density |
IKONOS; MODIS |
||
Digital elevation model |
ASTER; PRISM |
||
Near infrared |
0.7-1.0mm |
Vegetation mapping |
SPOT; Landsat TM; AVHRR; MODIS |
Flood mapping |
MODIS |
||
Shortwave infrared |
0.7-3.0mm |
Water vapour |
AIRS |
Thermal infrared |
3.0-14mm |
Active fire detection |
MODIS |
Burn scar mapping |
MODIS |
||
Hotspots |
MODIS; AVHRR |
||
Volcanic activity |
Hyperion |
||
Microwave (radar) |
0.1-100cm |
Earth deformation and ground movement |
Radarsat SAR; PALSAR |
Rainfall |
Meteosat; Microwave Imager (aboard TRMM) |
||
River discharge and volume |
AMSR-E |
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Flood mapping and forecasting |
AMSR-E |
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Surface winds |
QuikScat radar |
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3D storm structure |
Precipitation radar (aboard TRMM) |
Table 2: Applications of different wavebands for disaster management
Acronyms: Satellite Pour l'Observation de la Terre (SPOT); Thematic Mapper (TM); Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR); Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS); Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER); Panchromatic Remote-sensing Instrument for Stereo Mapping (PRISM); Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR); Phased Array type L-band SAR (PALSAR); Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM); Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM); Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer (AMSR-E); Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS)
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