Remote Sensing Monitoring, Modeling and Applications

1. Drought and Remote Sensing: An Overview [Nicolas R. Dalezios] 2. Agricultural Drought Monitoring Using Satellite Soil Moisture and Other Remote Sensing Data over the Iberian Peninsula [Jos?Mart?ez-Fern?dez, Nilda S?chez, and ?gel Gonz?ez-Zamora] 3. Drought Assessments by Coupling Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer Images and Weather Data: A Case Study in the Minas Gerais State, Brazil [Ant?io H. de C. Teixeira, Janice F. Leivas, and Gustavo Bayma-Silva] 4. The Added Value of Satellite Soil Moisture for Agricultural Index Insurance [Markus Enenkel, Daniel Osgood, and Bristol Powell] 5. Detecting the 2012 Drought in the Southeastern United States with Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer- and Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment-Based Drought Indicators [Ali Levent Yagci, Joseph A. Santanello, Matthew Rodell, Meixia Deng, and Liping Di] Section II: Remote Sensing of Frost and Sea Ice Hazards 6. Frost and Remote Sensing: An Overview of Capabilities [Nicolas R. Dalezios and George P. Petropoulos] 7. Remote Sensing of Sea Ice Hazards: An Overview [Mukesh Gupta] 8. Satellite Microwave Remote Sensing of Landscape Freeze?haw Status Related to Frost Hazard Monitoring [Youngwook Kim, John S. Kimball, and Jinyang Du] 9. Temperature Fluctuation and Frost Risk Analysis on a Road Network by Coupling Remote Sensing Data, Thermal Mapping, and Geographic Information System Techniques [Panagiota Louka, Ioannis Papanikolaou, George P. Petropoulos, Nikolaos Stathopoulos, and Ioannis X. Tsiros] Section III: Remote Sensing of Wildfires 10. Wildfires and Remote Sensing: An Overview [Nicolas R. Dalezios, Kostas Kalabokidis, Nikos Koutsias, and Christos Vasilakos] 11. A Review on European Remote Sensing Activities in Wildland Fires Prevention [David Chaparro, Merc?Vall-llossera, and Maria Piles] 12. Remote Sensing of Fire Effects: A Review for Recent Advances in Burned Area and Burn Severity Mapping [Ran Meng and Feng Zhao] 13. Exploring the Relationships between Topographical Elements and Forest Fire Occurrences in Alberta, Canada [Masoud Abdollahi, Quazi K. Hassan, Ehsan H. Chowdhury, and Anil Gupta] 14. Quantifying the Interannual Variability of Wildfire Events across Portugal for the 2014?015 Wildfires Using the Data from the European Forest Fire Information System [Aaron Mills and Daniel Colson] Section IV: Remote Sensing of Flood 15. Satellite Remote Sensing of Floods for Disaster Response Assistance [Guy J.-P. Schumann] 16. Usefulness of Remotely Sensed Data for Extreme Flood Event Modeling: A Study Case from an Amazonian Floodplain [Sebastien Pinel, Joecila Santos Da Silva, C. R. Fragoso Jr., J. Rafael Cavalcanti, Jeremie Garnier, Frederique Seyler, Stephane Calmant, David Motta Marques, and Marie-Paule Bonnet] 17. Large-Scale Flood Monitoring in Monsoon Asia for Global Disaster Risk Reduction Using MODIS/EOS Data [Youngjoo Kwak] 18. Introducing Flood Susceptibility Index Using Remote-Sensing Data and Geographic Information Systems: Empirical Analysis in Sperchios River Basin, Greece [Nikolaos Stathopoulos, Kleomenis Kalogeropoulos, Christos Polykretis, Panagiotis Skrimizeas, Panagiota Louka, Efthimios Karymbalis, and Christos Chalkias] 19. Satellite-Based Precipitation for Modeling Floods: Current Status and Limitations [Yiwen Mei, Efthymios, E. I. Nikolopoulos, and Emmanouil N. Anagnostou] Section V: Remote Sensing of Storms 20. Application of Remote-Sensing Images for Post-Wind Storm Damage Analysis [Sudha Radhika, Yukio Tamura, and Masahiro Matsui] 21. Analyzing Tropical Cyclones over India Using Precipitation Radar [Devajyoti Dutta, A. Routray, and Prashant K. Srivastava] 22. Radar Rainfall Estimates for Debris-Flow Early Warning Systems: Effect of Different Correction Procedures on the Identification of Intensity?uration Thresholds [F. Marra, E. I. Nikolopoulos, J. D. Creutin, and M. Borga] Section VI: Remote Sensing of Landslides 23. A Review of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Citizen Science, and Interferometry Remote Sensing in Landslide Hazards: Applications in Transportation Routes and Mining Environments [Panagiotis Partsinevelos, Zacharias Agioutantis, Achilleas Tripolitsiotis, and Nathaniel Schaefer] 24. Landslide Susceptibility Assessment Mapping: A Case Study in Central Greece [George D. Bathrellos, Dionissios P. Kalivas, and Hariklia D. Skilodimou] ...

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