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The Geography of Contemporary China

By: Jing’ai Wang,Shunlin Liang,Peijun Shi

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The Geography of Contemporary China

By: Jing’ai Wang,Shunlin Liang,Peijun Shi

This textbook provides a comprehensive and very detailed insight into Chinese Contemporary Geography in English. It documents the geographical issues associated with China's rapid growth. Since initiating the reforms and open policy, China has achieved tremendous success. China's rapid growth is now a driving force in the global economy and is achieving unprecedented rates of poverty reduction. However, China also faces a number of sustainability and emerging challenges associated with rapid growth such as growing regional disparities in terms of per capita income and social-economic development, sustainable resource development, and issues related to regional and global economic integration. In addition, rapid economic growth has also brought about major challenges such as resource shortages, ecological and environmental destruction, land degradation and frequent disasters. This book presents the authors’ reflections. This lavishly illustrated book covers physical geography, history, and economic and political systems of the world's most populous country. The major focus is on geographical issues in China's contemporary development: agriculture, population, urbanization, resource and energy, and environment. The lead author of the book has taught relevant courses in China for three decades, and authored and edited multiple textbooks for Chinese students. This book will appeal to undergraduate students of geography and related disciplines with a regional focus on China and to the general reader who wants to learn different geographical aspects of modern China with little academic background in geography.

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3031041585

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Land Surface Observation, Modeling and Data Assimilation

By: Shunlin Liang

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Land Surface Observation, Modeling and Data Assimilation

By: Shunlin Liang

This book is unique in its ambitious and comprehensive coverage of earth system land surface characterization, from observation and modeling to data assimilation, including recent developments in theory and techniques, and novel application cases. The contributing authors are active research scientists, and many of them are internationally known leading experts in their areas, ensuring that the text is authoritative.This book comprises four parts that are logically connected from data, modeling, data assimilation integrating data and models to applications. Land data assimilation is the key focus of the book, which encompasses both theoretical and applied aspects with various novel methodologies and applications to the water cycle, carbon cycle, crop monitoring, and yield estimation.Readers can benefit from a state-of-the-art presentation of the latest tools and their usage for understanding earth system processes. Discussions in the book present and stimulate new challenges and questions facing today''s earth science and modeling communities.

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World Scientific

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9814472611

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9789814472616

Quantitative Remote Sensing of Land Surfaces

By: Shunlin Liang

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Quantitative Remote Sensing of Land Surfaces

By: Shunlin Liang

Processing the vast amounts of data on the Earth's land surface environment generated by NASA's and other international satellite programs is a significant challenge. Filling a gap between the theoretical, physically-based modelling and specific applications, this in-depth study presents practical quantitative algorithms for estimating various land surface variables from remotely sensed observations. A concise review of the basic principles of optical remote sensing as well as practical algorithms for estimating land surface variables quantitatively from remotely sensed observations. Emphasizes both the basic principles of optical remote sensing and practical algorithms for estimating land surface variables quantitatively from remotely sensed observations Presents the current physical understanding of remote sensing as a system with a focus on radiative transfer modelling of the atmosphere, canopy, soil and snow Gathers the state of the art quantitative algorithms for sensor calibration, atmospheric and topographic correction, estimation of a variety of biophysical and geoph ysical variables, and four-dimensional data assimilation

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John Wiley & Sons

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0471723711

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9780471723714

Global LAnd Surface Satellite (GLASS) Products

Algorithms, Validation and Analysis

By: Shunlin Liang,Xiaotong Zhang,Zhiqiang Xiao,Jie Cheng,Qiang Liu,Xiang Zhao

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Global LAnd Surface Satellite (GLASS) Products

Algorithms, Validation and Analysis

By: Shunlin Liang,Xiaotong Zhang,Zhiqiang Xiao,Jie Cheng,Qiang Liu,Xiang Zhao

This book describes the algorithms, validation and preliminary analysis of the Global LAnd Surface Satellite (GLASS) products, a long-term, high-quality dataset that is now freely available worldwide to government organizations and agencies, scientific research institutions, students and members of the general public. The GLASS products include leaf area index, broadband albedo, broadband emissivity, downward shortwave radiation and photosynthetically active radiation. The first three GLASS products cover 1981 to 2012 with 1km and 5km spatial resolutions and 8-day temporal resolution, and the last two GLASS products span 2008 to 2010 with 3-hour temporal resolution and 5km spatial resolution. These GLASS products are unique. The first three are spatially continuous and cover the longest period of time among all current similar satellite products. The other two products are the highest spatial-resolution global radiation products from satellite observations that are currently available. These products can be downloaded from Beijing Normal University at http://glass-product.bnu.edu.cn/ and the University of Maryland Global Land Cover Facility at http://www.glcf.umd.edu/ The GLASS products are the outcome of a key research project entitled “Generation & Applications of Global Products of Essential Land Variables”, supported by funding from the High-Tech Research and Development Program of China and involving dozens of institutions and nearly one hundred scientists and researchers. Following an introduction, the book contains five chapters corresponding to these five GLASS products: background, algorithm, quality control and validation, preliminary analysis and applications. It discusses the long-term environmental changes detected from the GLASS products and other data sources at both global and local scales and also provides detailed analysis of regional hotspots where environmental changes are mainly associated with climate change, drought, land-atmosphere interactions, and human activities. The book is based primarily on a set of published journal papers about these five GLASS products and includes updated information. Since these products have now begun to be widely used, this book is an essential reference document. It is also a very helpful resource to anyone interested in satellite remote sensing and its applications.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3319025880

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Quantitative Remote Sensing of Land Surfaces

By: Shunlin Liang

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Land Surface Observation, Modeling and Data Assimilation

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The Geography of Contemporary China

By: Jing’ai Wang,Shunlin Liang,Peijun Shi

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Advances in Quantitative Remote Sensing in China - In Memory of Prof. Xiaowen Li: Volume 2

By: Jiancheng Shi,Shunlin Liang,Guangjian Yan

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Advances in Quantitative Remote Sensing in China - In Memory of Prof. Xiaowen Li: Volume 2

By: Jiancheng Shi,Shunlin Liang,Guangjian Yan

Quantitative land remote sensing has recently advanced dramatically, particularly in China. It has been largely driven by vast governmental investment, the availability of a huge amount of Chinese satellite data, geospatial information requirements for addressing pressing environmental issues and other societal benefits. Many individuals have also fostered and made great contributions to its development, and Prof. Xiaowen Li was one of these leading figures. This book is published in memory of Prof. Li. The papers collected in this book cover topics from surface reflectance simulation, inversion algorithm and estimation of variables, to applications in optical, thermal, Lidar and microwave remote sensing. The wide range of variables include directional reflectance, chlorophyll fluorescence, aerosol optical depth, incident solar radiation, albedo, surface temperature, upward longwave radiation, leaf area index, fractional vegetation cover, forest biomass, precipitation, evapotranspiration, freeze/thaw snow cover, vegetation productivity, phenology and biodiversity indicators. They clearly reflect the current level of research in this area. This book constitutes an excellent reference suitable for upper-level undergraduate students, graduate students and professionals in remote sensing.

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The Geography of Contemporary China

The Geography of Contemporary China

Land Surface Observation, Modeling and Data Assimilation

Land Surface Observation, Modeling and Data Assimilation

Quantitative Remote Sensing of Land Surfaces

Quantitative Remote Sensing of Land Surfaces

Global LAnd Surface Satellite (GLASS) Products

Global LAnd Surface Satellite (GLASS) Products

Quantitative Remote Sensing of Land Surfaces

Quantitative Remote Sensing of Land Surfaces

Land Surface Observation, Modeling and Data Assimilation

Land Surface Observation, Modeling and Data Assimilation

The Geography of Contemporary China

The Geography of Contemporary China

Advances in Quantitative Remote Sensing in China - In Memory of Prof. Xiaowen Li: Volume 2

Advances in Quantitative Remote Sensing in China - In Memory of Prof. Xiaowen Li: Volume 2

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