Constructive Processing of Microwave and Optical Data for Hydrogeochemical Applications

This book presents results of the combined use of microwave remote sensing, optical tools, and ecoinformatics methods under solution-applied tasks at both regional and global scales. Ecoinformatics methods are used to assess links between global climate change and the level of ocean pollution, with specific focus on the Arctic Ocean, the Sea of Okhotsk, and the South-China Sea. The theoretical and applied aspects of instrumental tools are considered in this book as a basis for the monitoring of water quality in various watersheds, with particular attention to microwave remote sensing monitoring data to determine the ecotoxicological status of hydro-ecosystems affected by climate change. The book develops new information technologies that provide solutions for hydrochemical tasks using algorithms and models based on computer technologies for big data processing. This will help to synthesize effective computer-based systems for the solution of problems arising due to anthropogenic impacts on hydrological processes and objects at various spatial scales. This book is intended for specialists in the fields of environmental monitoring, climate change, human-nature interactions, and geopolitics. The book will be useful for undergraduate and postgraduate students studying these fields of science as well.

Vladimir F. Krapivin was educated at the Moscow State University as mathematician in 1959. He received his PhD in radiophysics from the Kotelnikov Institute of Radioengineering and Electronics (KIRE) of Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) in 1966. The Doctoral Dissertation in geophysics had defended him at the Moscow Institute of Oceanology of RAS in 1973. He became Full Professor of Radiophysics in 1987. The title “Honoured Worker of Science” was given to him in 1999 by Russian Government. He was appointed Grand Professor in 2012 at the Nguyen Tat Thanh University (Vietnam). Vladimir Krapivin is a full member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences. He has published 37 books and 570 papers in the field of ecoinformatics, remote-sensing and global modeling. At present time he is chief scientists of KIRE and he has specialized ininvestigating global environmental change by the application of modeling technology and remote sensing tools.

He has published 5 books and 400 papers in the field of remote environmental monitoring. Currently, he is Head of the Laboratory of Information Modeling Technologies in Radiophysical Research of the Fryazino Branch of the Kotelnikov Institute of Radioengineering and Electronics RAS and he has specialized in investigating complex information systems, remote monitoring systems, data processing of remote and contact experimental researches.

Professor Dr. Yong Xue is an expert in quantitative remote sensing and Big Earth data, an Academician of the International Academy for Europe and Asia, a Corresponding Academician of the International Academy of Astronautics, and a Chartered Physicist. He received his BSc degree in Space Physics from the Department of Geophysics, Peking University, in 1986, his MSc degree from the Institute of Remote Sensing and Geoinformation, Peking University, in 1989, and his PhD from the Department of Applied Physics, University of Dundee, in 1995. He is currently a Chair Professor in the School of Environment and Spatial Informatics, China University of Mining and Technology, the deputy chair of “Chinese National Committee of the International Society for Digital Earth-Digital Energy Commission”, the deputy director of Observation and Research Station of Jiangsu Jiawang Resource Exhausted Mining Area Land Restoration and Ecological Succession, Ministry of Education, China. He has published more than 310 peer-reviewed papers (more than 260 corresponding and first-author papers). He has published two academic monographs (co-author) and more than 320 invited conference presentations. He is currently on the editorial board of the International Journal of Remote Sensing and the editor of the World Scientific Publishing Remote Sensing book series (2001–).