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(a)

Warsaw
Airport

(b) (c)

(d)
FIGURE 7.3
Combined Landsat 4 and 5 TM scenes displayed as (a) the full extent, (b) a zoomed-in over-
lapping area, (c) overlain with the Natural Earth 110-m Populated Places layer and 50-m
Airports layer, and (d) the Natural Earth 50-m land layer with the river and lake centerlines.
(Data courtesy of NASA/USGS.)

(a)
FIGURE 8.3
New York Bight shown using Landsat ETM+ data as (a) visible/NIR composite. (Data cour-
tesy of NASA/USGS.)

(a)

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2110....050500000000000000000000
(b)
FIGURE 8.5
MODIS data from April 17, 2006, shown as the (a) MODIS Top-of-Atmosphere reflectance as
a pseudo-true color composite using wavebands 1, 4, and 3 over Beijing and the Bohai Sea
alongside the (b) global combined land and ocean aerosol optical depth from the MOD08_
D3 product. (Data courtesy of NASA.)

1_Deep ground motions
2_Natural ground instability
3_Natural ground movement
4_Anthropogenic ground instability
6_Unknown
(a)

cm/month

–2.50 2.50
(b)

FIGURE 8.6

(a) Example Pangeo product for Rome, Italy and (b) Sentinel-1A data acquired between
October 3 and December 2, 2014, combined to create an image of the ground deforma-
tion in Mexico City. (Sentinel-1A Copernicus data [2014]/ESA/DLR Microwave and Radar
Institute—SEOM InSARap study. Pangeo product Copyright © 2012. Reproduced with the
permission of the rightsholders who participated in the EC FP7 PanGeo Project (262371) and
European Environment Agency. Details of the rightsholders and the terms of the licence to
use PanGeo project data can be found at http://www.pangeoproject.eu.)

(a) (b)

(c)

(d)
FIGURE 8.7
Collection of imagery collected over the New York Bight on September 8, 2002, as (a) the
Landsat 7 ETM+ false color composite with a full contrast stretch, (b) the Landsat 7 ETM+
false color composite with a contrast stretch excluding water, (c) the Landsat 7 ETM+ false
color composite with the MODIS daytime land surface temperature overlaid after import,
and (d) zoomed-in ASTER false color composite for New York and Manhattan. (Data cour-
tesy of NASA/USGS.)

FIGURE 9.1
May 13, 2014, 10-day composite of NDVI derived from SPOT-VGT data for the Africa con-
tinental tile. (Copyright Copernicus Global Land Service, 2013. Distributed and produced
by VITO NV, Belgium.)

112—Discontinuous urban fabric
121—Industrial or commercial units
122—Road and rail networks and associated...
123—Port areas
124—Airports
131—Mineral extraction sites
132—Dump sites
133—Construction sites
141—Green urban areas
142—Sport and leisure facilities
211—Non-irrigated arable land
212—Permanently irrigated land
213—Rice fields
221—Vineyard
222—Fruit trees and berry plantations
223—Olive groves
231—Pastures
241—Annual crops associated with permanent...
242—Complex cultivation patterns
243—Land principally occupied by agriculture...
244—Agro-forestry areas
311—Broad-leaved forest
312—Coniferous forest
313—Mixed forest
321—Natural grasslands
322—Moors and heathland
323—Sclerophyllous vegetation
324—Transitional woodland-shrub
331—Beaches-dunes-sands
332—Bare rocks
333—Sparsely vegetated areas

(a)

(b)

FIGURE 9.2
A comparison of the (a) 1990 and (b) 2006 CORINE Land Cover 250-m resolution raster data
zoomed in to show central Spain with changes including the urban growth of Madrid (red/
pink pixels) and burnt areas (black pixels). (Courtesy of the European Environment Agency.)

Cloud Land—Fire
Water Land—No fire

FIGURE 9.4
Fires on the island of Tasmania, Australia, on January 4, 2013, captured using MODIS-Aqua.
Displayed as a pseudo-true color composite and inset with the MYD14 product. (Data cour-
tesy of NASA.)

(a)

(b)
FIGURE 9.5
Landsat 8 data acquired over the US state of Kansas, near the city of Ulysses, on April 24,
2014, displayed in QGIS as the (a) false color composite after preprocessing and (b) QGIS
window showing the selection of an ROI with the fixed and floating SCP sidebars. (Data
courtesy of USGS/NASA.)

(a) (b)

FIGURE 9.6
Landsat 8 scene as the (a) classification results for a subarea and (b) full scene. (Data courtesy of USGS/NASA.)

(a) (b)

(c) (d)
FIGURE 9.7
Landsat 8 scene zoomed in to show the training ROI sites picked for (a) soil, (b) urban, and
(c) water, plus the (d) classification results for a subarea overlaid by the Signature list. (Data
courtesy of USGS/NASA.)

(a) (b)

(c)
FIGURE 10.1
Lake Victoria examples including (a) Landsat TM mosaic for June 2009, (b) LSWT from
ARC-Lake, and (c) March 2012 chlorophyll-a product created using the eutrophic lakes pro-
cessor applied to a MERIS FR image. (Data courtesy of the named projects alongside ESA/
NASA/USGS.)

(a) (b)

FIGURE 10.3
Landsat imagery showing the change in the Dead Sea, through pseudo-true color compos-
ites of (a) Landsat 5 MSS data acquired in 1984 and (b) Landsat 8 OLI in 2014. (Data courtesy
of NASA/USGS.)

GRACE-based shallow groundwater drought indicator
March 23, 2015

Wetness percentiles are relative to the period 19842009
Cell resolution 0.25 degrees
Projection of this document is Lambert Azimuthal Equal Area

2 5 10 20 30 70 80 90 95 98 http://drought.unl.edu/MonitoringTools/NASAGRACEDataAssimilation.aspx
Wetness percentile

FIGURE 10.4
Map of a drought indicator associated with climatic variability for the week of March 23,
2015. (Courtesy of the US National Drought Mitigation Center.)

(a)

(b)
FIGURE 10.6
(a) SRTM tiles with TerraSAR-X image overlaid and (b) layers ordered as the TerraSAR-X
image, then SRTM DEM derived 100 m contours, then NDWI, and finally a pseudo-true
color composite at the bottom. (Data courtesy of Airbus DS/NASA/USGS.)

(a) (b)

Chlor-a (mg m–3) SST (ºC)

0.11 0.19 0.65 1.5 3.81 7.41 10.73 13.31 15.88 18.46 21.04 23.62 26.19 28.77

(c) (d)

FIGURE 11.1

MODIS-Aqua imagery for September 8, 2002, shown as the (a) pseudo-color composite full
scene TOA reflectance image alongside the zoomed-in image to show the New York Bight
area as the (b) pseudo-color composite BOA reflectance image, (c) Chlor-a map, and (d) SST.
(Data courtesy of NASA.)

Aqua AMSR-E - SH 12.5 km sea ice con.
All passes - Daily
Data from 2002-10-21 00:02:53Z to 2002-10-22 00:46:41Z

30 W 0E 30 E

Percent
100
90 60 W 60 E
90 E
80 120 E

70

60

50

40 90 W
30

20

10

0
Land
Flags/OOB

120 W

150 W 180 E 150 E

FIGURE 11.2
AMSR-E sea ice data browse image for Antarctica February 28, 2014. (Data courtesy of
Cavalieri et al. [2004], NSIDC; Copyright © 2014 The University of Alabama in Huntsville.
All rights reserved.)

(a)
FIGURE 11.3
Phytoplankton blooming off the coast of Argentina using MERIS Level 1 reduced resolu-
tion imagery captured on February 10, 2003, shown as the (a) TOA radiance pseudo-true
color composite. (Data courtesy of ESA/NASA.)

FIGURE 11.5
Landsat 8 image of Chesapeake Bay from February 28, 2014. (Data courtesy of USGS [in
previous figure acknowledgments only acronyms has been used].)

(a)

(b)
FIGURE 11.6
Downloading and importing New York Bight MODIS L2 into SNAP where (a) represents
the position of the New York Bight on the NASA OceanColor Website and (b) is the New
York Bight area of the MODIS image for subsetting. (Data courtesy of NASA.)

(a) (b)

(c)
Chlor-a mean (–)

0.03 0.25 0.45 0.8 1.32 2.26

(d)
FIGURE 11.7
(a) Landsat 7 pseudo-true color composite for September 8, 2002, (b) MODIS-Aqua pseudo-
true color composite reprojected into a UTM projection for the New York Bight, shown
alongside the (c) global MODIS L3 8-day Chlor-a composite that’s (d) zoomed in to show the
New York Bight area. (Data courtesy of NASA/USGS.)