Tang H., Li Z. Quantitative Remote Sensing in Thermal Infrared. Theory and Applications

Berlin: Springer, 2014. — 298 p.This book provides a comprehensive and in-depth overview of the basic theory of TIR remote sensing and its applications in agriculture, hydrology, and forestry. Specifically, this book highlights the main theory, assumptions, advantages, drawbacks, and perspectives of the current methodologies for retrieving and validating land surface temperature, land surface emissivity, and land surface evapotranspiration from TIR data in the past several decades.
This book is intended to answer the questions what the measured quantities are in TIR remote sensing and what the interesting information the TIR remote sensing can provide is and how this information is produced. It is based in part on three review papers we have published in Sensors, International Journal of Remote Sensing, and Remote Sensing of Environment, respectively.We have also used materials from our published papers in the literature. This book is the point of view of the physicists and contains eight chapters.