Handbook of Satellite Land Products

Shunlin Liang is Chair Professor at the Department of Geography, University of Hong Kong. His main research interests focus on estimating land surface essential variables from satellite data, global satellite product generation, and global environmental change. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and an Editor-in-Chief of Science of Remote Sensing. He has published over 430 peer-reviewed journal papers, 10 special issues of different journals, and authored/edited eight books. He was also Editor-in-Chief of the nine-volume reference work “Comprehensive Remote Sensing” (Elsevier, 2017) and has led to develop the Global LAnd Surface Satellite (GLASS) products suite and the Hi-GLASS products. Han Ma is Research Assistant Professor at the Department of Geography, the University of Hong Kong. She was a research assistant at the University of Maryland, USA in 2017, and a postdoctorial fellow at Wuhan University, China from 2018-2022. Her main research interests include radiative transfer modeling and inversion of land surface/atmospheric variables, and high-level global satellite product generation/analysis. She developed two global satellite products (leaf area index and fraction of absorbed photosynthetically active radiation) at 250m spatial resolution from 2000-2021, which are the global LAI and FAPAR time-series products with the highest spatial resolution in the world.

Part I Land surface radiation energy budget 1. incident solar radiation products 2. Surface albedo products 3. Longwave radiation 4. Land Surface Temperature 5. Emissivity 6. Near-ground air temperature 7. Net Radiation 8. Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function Part II Ecosystem Structure and Carbon Cycle 9. Leaf Area Index 10. Fraction of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation 11. Fraction of Vegetation Cover 12. Fraction of forest cover 13. Clumping Index 14. Tree height 15. Biomass 16. Gross Primary Productivity 17. Net Primary Productivity 18. NEP products Part III Water cycle and cryosphere 19. Precipitation 20. Surface water 21. Soil Moisture 22. Evapotranspiration 23. Snow and Ice cover 24. Snow water equivalent 25. Freezing and Thawing State Part IV Land cover and land use 26. Land Cover 27. Wetlands 28. Mangrove 29. Crop types 30. Impervious Surface 31. Fires 32. Forest Loss and Gain