List of contributors ........................................... xv
Cryosphere Science: Series Preface ............................ xix
Preface ....................................................... xxi
Acknowledgments ............................................. xxiii
About the companion website .................................. xxiv
1 Remote sensing and the cryosphere ............................ 1
Marco Tedesco
2 Electromagnetic properties of components of the
cryosphere .................................................. 17
Marco Tedesco
3 Remote sensing of snow extent ............................... 31
Dorothy K. Hall, Allan Frei, and Stephen J. Déry
4 Remote sensing of snow albedo, grain size, and pollution
from space .................................................. 48
Alexander A. Khokanovsky
5 Remote sensing of snow depth and snow water equivalent ...... 73
Marco Tedesco, Chris Berksen, Jeffrey S. Deems, and
James L. Foster
6 Remote sensing of melting snow and ice ...................... 99
Marco Tedesco, Thomas Mote, Konrad Steffen, Dorothy K.
Hall, and Waleed Abdalati
7 Remote sensing of glaciers ..................................123
Bruce H. Raup, Liss M. Andreassen, Tobias Boich, and
Suzanne Bevan
8 Remote sensing of accumulation over the Greenland and
Antarctic ice sheets ....................................... 157
Lora Koenig, Richard Forster, Ludovic Brucker, and Julie
Miller
9 Remote sensing of ice thickness and surface velocity ....... 187
Prasad Gogineni and Jie-Bang Yan
10 Gravimetry measurements from space ......................... 231
Scott B. Luthcke, D.D. Rowlands, T.J. Sabaka,
B.D. Loomis, M. Horwath, and A.A. Arendt
11 Remote sensing of sea ice .................................. 248
Walter N. Meier and Thorsten Markus
12 Remote sensing of lake and river ice ....................... 273
Claude R. Duguay, Monique Bernier, Yves Gauthier, and
Alexei Kouraev
13 Remote sensing of permafrost and frozen ground ............. 307
Sebastian Westermann, Claude R. Duguay, Guido Grosse, and
Andreas Kääb
14 Field measurements for remote sensing of the cryosphere .... 345
Hans-Peter Marshall, Robert L. Hawley, and Marco Tedesco
15 Remote sensing missions and the cryosphere ................. 382
Marco Tedesco, Tommaso Parrinello, Charles Webb, and
Thorsten Markus
Index.......................................................... 393
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