Reprint
ASTER 20th Anniversary
Edited by
April 2020
284 pages
- ISBN978-3-03928-684-3 (Paperback)
- ISBN978-3-03928-685-0 (PDF)
This book is a reprint of the Special Issue ASTER 20th Anniversary that was published in
Engineering
Environmental & Earth Sciences
Summary
The Advanced Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) is a research facility instrument on NASA’s Terra spacecraft. We celebrated the 20th anniversary of ASTER’s launch in December 1999. ASTER has been providing high spatial resolution multispectral data in the VNIR, SWIR, and TIR regions, and along-track stereo data. Starting April 2016, ASTER data have been distributed to the public at no cost. Another important and the most popular data set is the ASTER Global DEM, which covers almost the entire land surface at a 30 m grid size. ASTER data have been widely used in a variety of application areas such as land surface mapping and change detection, volcano and other natural hazard monitoring, mineral exploration, and urban heat island monitoring. This Special Issue consists of 12 papers (2 reviews, 9 articles, and 1 technical note) and covers topics including development of new techniques to process ASTER data, calibration activities to ensure long-term consistency of ASTER data, validation of the ASTER data products, and scientific achievements using ASTER data.
Format
- Paperback
License
© 2020 by the authors; CC BY-NC-ND license
Keywords
ASTER instrument; stereo; digital elevation model; global database; optical sensor; water body detection; ASTER; DEM; lithological mapping; thermal infrared; Terra ASTER; Terra MODIS; True Color imagery; Mosaic; atmospheric correction; Artificial Neural Network; ASTER; mineral exploration; geologic mapping; 3D perspective view; morphology; lithology; Wudalianchi volcano; ASTER multispectral data; ASTER; lunar calibration; radiometric calibration; VNIR; TIR; Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER); MODIS; MOD35; cloud mask; cloud coverage; uncertain flag; mission operations; observation scheduler; cloud avoidance; success rate; ASTER; mineral mapping; earthen Great Wall; loess; Ming Dynasty; sediment transport pathways; mineral system; erosion; deposition; aeolian; fluvial; ASTER; vicarious calibration; lunar calibration; radiometric calibration; VNIR; land-surface temperature; zero curtain effect; MODIS; ASTER; permafrost; phase change; ASTER; thermal infrared data; volcanic processes; image archive; future concepts; ASTER; Mako; TES algorithm; temperature; emissivity; validation; Algodones; n/a