About the editorHeiko Balzter is Professor of Physical Geography and Director of the Centre for Landscape and Climate Research at the University of Leicester, UK.

• List of Contributors viiPreface xi1 Earth Observation for Land and Emergency Monitoring Core Services 1Heiko BalzterPart I Forest Monitoring 52 Methodology for Regional to Global Mapping of Aboveground Forest Biomass: Integrating Forest Allometry, Ground Plots, and Satellite Observations 7P. Rodriguez-Veiga, S. Saatchi, J. Wheeler, K. Tansey and Heiko Balzter3 Remote Sensing for Aboveground Biomass Estimation in Boreal Forests 33M.A. Stelmaszczuk]Górska, C.J. Thiel and C.C. Schmullius4 Forest Mapping of the Congo Basin using Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) 57J. Wheeler, P. Rodriguez-Veiga, Heiko Balzter, K. Tansey and N.J. TatePart II Land Cover and Land Cover Change Monitoring 755 Multi]Frequency SAR Applications for Land Cover Classification Within Copernicus Downstream Services 77B.F. Spies, A. Lamb and Heiko Balzter6 Unsupervised Land Use/Land Cover Change Detection with Integrated Pixel and Object Based Approaches for High Resolution Remote Sensing Imagery 101S. Shrestha, C. Smith and Z. Bochenek7 Earth Observation Land Data Assimilation System (EO]LDAS) Regularization Constraints over Barrax Site 117M. Chernetskiy, N. Gobron, J. Gómez]Dans, P. Lewis and C.C. SchmulliusPart III Coastal Zone and Freshwater Monitoring 1418 SAR]Based EO of Salt Marsh Habitats in Support of Integrated Coastal Zone Management 143S.J. van Beijma, A. Comber and A. Lamb9 A Framework for Lakeshore Vegetation Assessment Using Field Spectroscopy and Airborne Hyperspectral Imagery 159D. Stratoulias, I. Keramitsoglou, P. Burai, L. Csaba, A. Zlinszky, V.R. Tóth and Heiko Balzter10 Copernicus Framework for Monitoring Lake Balaton Phytoplankton 173S.C.J. Palmer, A. Zlinszky, Heiko Balzter, V. Nicolás]Perea and V.R. TóthPart IV Land Deformation Mapping and Humanitarian Crisis Response 19311 InSAR Techniques for Land Deformation Monitoring 195P. Kourkouli, U. Wegmüller, A. Wiesmann and K. Tansey12 Mapping Land Surface Displacements in the Swiss Alps with Radar Interferometry 209J. Papke, T. Strozzi and N.J. Tate13 Sample Supervised Search]Centric Approaches in Geographic Object]Based Image Analysis: Concepts, State of the Art and a Future Outlook 223C. Fourie and E. SchoepferPart V Earth Observation for Climate Adaptation 24514 Remote Sensing of Wetland Dynamics as Indicators of Water Availability in Semi]Arid Africa 247L. Moser, A. Schmitt, S. Voigt and E. Schoepfer15 Satellite Derived Information for Drought Detection and Estimation of Water Balance 285M. Ofwono, K. Dabrowska]Zielinska, J. Kaduk and V. Nicolás-Perea16 Conclusions 301Heiko BalzterIndex 305

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