Advances in Earth Observation of Global Change

The Role of Small Satellite Missions in Global Change Studies.- Spatial Pattern Analysis of Water-Driven Land Cover Change in Aridzone, Northwest of China.- A Spatial Logistic Regression Model for Simulating Land Use Patterns: A Case Study of the Shiraz Metropolitan Area of Iran.- Abu Dhabi Island: Analysis of Development and Vegetation Change Using Remote Sensing (1972–2000).- Remote Sensing of Coastal Water Quality in the Baltic Sea Using MERIS.- Remote Sensing for Water Quality Monitoring in Apalachicola Bay, USA.- Extracting Cryospheric Information over Lowlands from L-Band Polarimetric SAR Data.- Variability of Northern Hemisphere Spring Snowmelt Dates Using the AVHRR Polar Pathfinder Snow Cover During 1982–2004.- MODIS Snow Monitoring Over the Tibetan Plateau.- The Global Geodetic Observing System (GGOS): Detecting the Fingerprints of Global Change in Geodetic Quantities.- Monitoring Radial Tectonic Motions of Continental Borders Around the Atlantic Ocean and Regional Sea Level Changes by Space Geodetic Observations.- GNSS Activities for Natural Disaster Monitoring and Climate Change Detection at GFZ – An Overview.- Satellite Imagery for Landslide Mapping in an Earthquake-Struck Area.- Relations Between Human Factors and Global Fire Activity.- The Use of Remote Sensing Data and Meteorological Information for Food Security Monitoring, Examples in East Africa.- Application of an Early Warning System for Floods.- L-Band and C-Band Combined Interferometric Monitoring of the Wenchuan Earthquake.- Uncovering the Space–Time Patterns of Change with the Use of Change Analyst – Case Study of Hong Kong.- Change Detection of Sea Ice Distribution in SAR Imagery Using Semi-variogram of Intrinsic Regionalization Model.