This volume comprises an outstanding variety of chapters on Earth Observation based time series analyses, undertaken to reveal past and current land surface dynamics for large areas. What exactly are time series of Earth Observation data? Which sensors are available to generate real time series? How can they be processed to reveal their valuable hidden information? Which challenges are encountered on the way and which pre-processing is needed? And last but not least: which processes can be observed? How are large regions of our planet changing over time and which dynamics and trends are visible? These and many other questions are answered within this book ¿Remote Sensing Time Series Analyses ¿ Revealing Land Surface Dynamics¿. Internationally renowned experts from Europe, the USA and China present their exciting findings based on the exploitation of satellite data archives from well-known sensors such as AVHRR, MODIS, Landsat, ENVISAT, ERS and METOP amongst others. Selected review and methods chapters provide a good overview over time series processing and the recent advances in the optical and radar domain. A fine selection of application chapters addresses multi-class land cover and land use change at national to continental scale, the derivation of patterns of vegetation phenology, biomass assessments, investigations on snow cover duration and recent dynamics, as well as urban sprawl observed over time.

Provides a comprehensive overview of remote sensing time series analyses, which enable to reveal past and current land surface dynamics

Tentative with international authorship from DFD, IMF, ESA, NASA, USGS etc.- Snow dynamics in Europe over the past 30 years.- (AVHRR 30 years time series).- Dynamic of net primary productivity in Europe (10 years of biomass modeling data).- Biomass development in Kasachsthan (10 years of biomass modeling data).- Land degradation in South Africa (10 years of biomass modeling data).- Land cover and land use change in central Asia (10 years of MODIS data).- Vegetation dynamics in western Africa (30 years AVHRR, 10 years MODIS).- Dynamics of soil moisture in the Mekong Basin (20+ years of ERS data).- Temperature trends in the Mekong Basin (30 years AVHRR, 10 years MODIS).- Landcover dynamics during the past decade in the Mekong Basin (10 years MODIS).- Coastal zone dynamics of the yellow river delta (30 years of Landsat).- Landcover change in the yellow river delta (30 years of Landsat).- Flood dynamics in the Mekong delta (30 years of Landsat).