Thermal Infrared Remote Sensing of Water Temperature in Riverine Landscapes

Fluvial Remote Sensing for Science and Management

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 85-113

  Handcock, Rebecca N ^a   Torgersen, Christian E ^b   Cherkauer, Keith A ^c   Gillespie, Alan R ^b   Tockner, Klement ^d   Faux, Russel N ^e   Tan, Jing ^c  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^e Watershed Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Imaging systems; Near bank; Thermal capacity; TIR; Water temperature

Indexed keywords

IMAGING SYSTEMS; SPECIFIC HEAT; TEMPERATURE;

NEAR-BANK; THERMAL INFRARED REMOTE SENSING; WATER TEMPERATURES;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 84865537230     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781119940791.ch5     Document Type: Chapter

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