Melesse Assefa M, Weng Qihao, Thenkabail Prasad S, Senay Gabriel B
Department of Environmental Studies, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, USA.
Center for Urban and Environmental Change, Department of Geography, Indiana State University.
Sensors (Basel). 2007 Nov 11;7(12):3209-3241. doi: 10.3390/s7123209.
The history of remote sensing and development of different sensors for environmental and natural resources mapping and data acquisition is reviewed and reported. Application examples in urban studies, hydrological modeling such as land-cover and floodplain mapping, fractional vegetation cover and impervious surface area mapping, surface energy flux and micro-topography correlation studies is discussed. The review also discusses the use of remotely sensed-based rainfall and potential evapotranspiration for estimating crop water requirement satisfaction index and hence provides early warning information for growers. The review is not an exhaustive application of the remote sensing techniques rather a summary of some important applications in environmental studies and modeling.
本文回顾并报道了遥感技术的历史以及用于环境和自然资源测绘与数据采集的不同传感器的发展情况。讨论了其在城市研究、水文建模（如土地覆盖和洪泛区测绘、植被覆盖度和不透水表面面积测绘、地表能量通量和微地形相关性研究）中的应用实例。该综述还讨论了利用基于遥感的降雨和潜在蒸散量来估算作物水分需求满足指数，从而为种植者提供预警信息。本综述并非对遥感技术的详尽应用，而是对环境研究和建模中一些重要应用的总结。
