Elsevier Radar Remote Sensing: Applications and Challenges: Volume 2 (Earth Observation)

Product Description Radar Remote Sensing: Applications and Challenges advances the scientific understanding, development, and application of radar remote sensing using monostatic, bistatic and multi-static radar geometry. This multidisciplinary reference pulls together a collection of the recent developments and applications of radar remote sensing using different radar geometry and platforms at local, regional and global levels.  Radar Remote Sensing is for researchers and practitioners with earth and environmental and meteorological sciences, who are interested in radar remote sensing in ground based scatterometer and SAR systems; air borne scatterometer and SAR systems; space borne scatterometer and SAR systems. Review A multidisciplinary volume on the theories, applications and challenges in observing the Earth using different types of radar remote sensing From the Back Cover <p><i>Radar Remote Sensing: Applications and Challenges</i> advances the scientific understanding, development, and application of radar remote sensing using monostatic, bistatic and multi-static radar geometry. This multidisciplinary reference pulls together a collection of the recent developments and applications of radar remote sensing using different radar geometry and platforms at local, regional and global levels.  </p> <p>Radar Remote Sensing is for researchers and practitioners with earth and environmental and meteorological sciences, who are interested in radar remote sensing in ground based scatterometer and SAR systems; air borne scatterometer and SAR systems; space borne scatterometer and SAR systems.</p> About the Author Prashant Kumar Srivastava is working at IESD, Banaras Hindu University as a faculty and is also a visiting scholar with the Hydrological Sciences division at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. He received his doctoral degree from the Department of Civil Engineering, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK. He received several awards such as NASA Fellowship, University of Maryland Fellowship, Commonwealth Fellowship, Early Career Research Award (ECRA, DST, India), CSIR as well as UGC– JRF-NET (2005, 2006). He is leading number of projects funded from reputed agencies in India as well as world. He is also a collaborator with NASA JPL on SMAP soil moisture calibration and validation as well as Scatsat-1, NISAR, AVIRIS-NG missions of India. He has published 130+ peer-reviewed journals and seven books. He is also acting as Associate Editor of Journal of Hydrology, Hydrological Sciences Journal, Remote Sensing (MDPI), Journal of Earth System Science, Environment Development and Sustainability, Environmental Processes, Cogent Environmental Sciences, Co-editor-in-Chief Bulletin of Environmental and Scientific Research and Guest Editor of Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, IJSLUP and JSRS. Dileep Kumar Gupta received his doctoral degree from the Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi, India. Dr. Dileep received several reputed awards like UGC-NET, GATE, UGC research fellowship and DST international travel support. He has published 30+ research articles in different peer reviewed journals/conference proceedings/book chapters. He is an expert in algorithm development for soil moisture and crop variables retrieval using different ground based and space borne active and passive microwave sensor. He is also an expert of different machine learning algorithms for remote sensing data processing. Tanvir Islam received a Ph.D. in remote sensing from the University of Bristol, Bristol, UK, in 2012. He is presently with the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, specializing in remote sensing observations. Currently, he is engaged with the development of advanced microwave calibration and retrieval algorithms for NASA’s Earth observing missions. Dr. Islam was the recipient of the Faculty of Engineering Commendation from the University of Bristol (nominated fo