Remote sensing data calibration, reflectance, radiance conversion, spectral reflectance and materials properties, deterministic methods, statistical, empirical methods, physically based methods, estimation of geophysical variables, forest growing stock, LST / SST, soil moisture, snow melt and runoff prediction, crop yield, rainfall,  ocean chlorophyll and productivity, validation and spatial scaling

1.      1. Quantitative Remote Sensing of Land Surfaces byLiang S., Wiley-Interscience Publishers, 2003