Exploring the Earth System with Imaging Spectroscopy

This volume presents a broad overview of the requirements, capabilities, challenges and future directions of spaceborne imaging spectroscopy to explore the Earth's surface for a range of application domains. These include mine exploration, soil mapping, vegetation monitoring, mapping of pollution and hazardous materials, inland and coastal water monitoring, urban applications and others. Imaging spectroscopy, also often termed hyperspectral remote sensing, for terrestrial Earth observation dates back to the 1980s, when the first spectrometers observing in the visible to shortwave infrared wavelength range were deployed on airborne platforms. From the end of the 1990s onwards, spaceborne hyperspectral missions have demonstrated the capability to provide information on the composition and biochemical and physical characteristics of the Earth's surface. Today, several hyperspectral spaceborne missions are under development to be launched within the next few years. It can be expectedt hat future global and frequent coverage of the Earth's surface with spaceborne imaging spectroscopy data will bring a major advance in the information depth that future Earth system models and monitoring service developments can be based on.


Previously published in Surveys in Geophysics, Volume 40, Issue 3, 2019

The chapters "Imaging Spectrometry of Inland and Coastal Waters: State of the Art, Achievements and Perspectives", "Imaging Spectroscopy for the Detection, Assessment and Monitoring of Natural and Anthropogenic Hazards", "Assessing Vegetation Function with Imaging Spectroscopy", "Spaceborne Imaging Spectroscopy for Sustainable Agriculture: Contributions and Challenges" are available as open access articles under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com.

Inhaltsverzeichnis:

Guest Editorial: International Space Science Institute (ISSI) Workshop on Space-Borne Imaging Spectroscopy for Exploring the Earth's Ecosystems.- Earth Observation Imaging Spectroscopy for Terrestrial Systems: An Overview of Its History, Techniques, and Applications of Its Missions.- Retrieval of Atmospheric Parameters and Surface Reflectance from Visible and Shortwave Infrared Imaging Spectroscopy Data.- Imaging Spectroscopy for Soil Mapping and Monitoring.- Imaging Spectrometry of Inland and Coastal Waters: State of the Art, Achievements and Perspectives.- Imaging Spectroscopy for the Detection, Assessment and Monitoring of Natural and Anthropogenic Hazards.- Imaging Spectroscopy of Urban Environments.- Assessing Vegetation Function with Imaging Spectroscopy.- Spaceborne Imaging Spectroscopy for Sustainable Agriculture: Contributions and Challenges.- Imaging Spectroscopy of Forest Ecosystems: Perspectives forthe Use of Space-borne Hyperspectral Earth Observation Systems.- Quanti fying Vegetation Biophysical Variables from Imaging Spectroscopy Data: A Review on Retrieval Methods.- Variability and Uncertainty Challenges in Scaling Imaging Spectroscopy Retrievals and Validations from Leaves Up to Vegetation Canopies.- Synergies of Spaceborne Imaging Spectroscopy with Other Remote Sensing Approaches.