Acoustic Radiation -- Acoustic Tomography, Ocean -- Acoustic Waves, Propagation -- Acoustic Waves, Scattering -- Aerosols -- Agricultural Expansion and Abandonment -- Agriculture and Remote Sensing -- Air Pollution -- Atmospheric General Circulation Models -- Calibration and Validation -- Calibration, Microwave Radiometers -- Calibration, Optical/Infrared Passive Sensors -- Calibration, Synthetic Aperture Radars -- Calibration, Scatterometers -- Climate Data Records -- Climate Monitoring and Prediction -- Cloud Liquid Water -- Cloud Properties -- Coastal Ecosystems -- Commercial Remote Sensing -- Cosmic-Ray Hydrometeorology -- Cost Benefit Assessment -- Crop Stress -- Cryosphere and Polar Region Observing System -- Cryosphere, Climate Change Effects -- Cryosphere, Climate Change Feedbacks -- Cryosphere, Measurements and Applications -- Data Access -- Data Archival and Distribution -- Data Archives and Repositories -- Data Assimilation -- Data Policies -- Data Processing, SAR Sensors -- Decision Fusion, Classification of Multisource Data -- Earth Radiation Budget, Top-of-Atmosphere Radiation -- Earth System Models -- Electromagnetic Theory and Wave Propagation -- Emerging Applications -- Emerging Technologies -- Emerging Technologies, Free-Space Optical Communications -- Emerging Technologies: Lidar -- Emerging Technologies, Radar.-Emerging Technologies, Radiometer -- Emerging Technologies, Sensor Web -- Environmental Treaties -- Fields and Radiation -- Fisheries -- Forestry -- Gamma and X-Radiation -- Geodesy -- Geological Mapping Using Earth's Magnetic Field -- Geomorphology -- Geophysical Retrieval: Forward Models in Remote Sensing -- Geophysical Retrieval: Inverse Problems in Remote Sensing -- Geophysical Retrieval, Overview -- Global Climate Observing System -- Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) -- Global Land Observing System -- Global Programs, Operational Systems -- GPS, Occultation Systems -- Ice Sheets and Ice Volume -- Icebergs -- International Collaboration -- Ionospheric Effects on the Propagation of Electromagnetic Waves -- Irrigation Management -- Land Surface Emissivity -- Land Surface Roughness -- Land Surface Temperature -- Land Surface Topography -- Land-Atmosphere Interactions, Evapotranspiration -- Landslides -- Law of Remote Sensing -- Lidar Systems -- Lightning -- Limb Sounding, Atmospheric -- Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) -- Magnetic Field -- Media, Electromagnetic Characteristics -- Microwave Dielectric Properties of Materials -- Microwave Horn Antennas -- Microwave Radiometers -- Microwave Radiometers, Conventional -- Microwave Radiometers, Correlation -- Microwave Radiometers, Interferometers -- Microwave Radiometers, Polarimeters -- Microwave Subsurface Propagation and Scattering -- Microwave Surface Scattering and Emission -- Mission Costs of Earth-Observing Satellites -- Mission Operations, Science Applications/Requirements -- Observational Platforms, Aircraft, and UAVs -- Observational Systems, Satellite -- Ocean Applications of Interferometric SAR -- Ocean Data Telemetry -- Ocean Internal Waves -- Ocean Measurements and Applications, Ocean Color -- Ocean Modeling and Data Assimilation -- Ocean Surface Topography -- Ocean Surface Velocity -- Ocean, Measurements, and Applications -- Ocean-Atmosphere Water Flux and Evaporation -- Operational Transition -- Optical/Infrared, Atmospheric Absorption/Transmission, and Media Spectral Properties -- Optical/Infrared, Radiative Transfer -- Optical/Infrared, Scattering by Aerosols and Hydrometeors -- Pattern Recognition and Classification -- Polar Ice Dynamics -- Polar Ocean Navigation -- Policies and Economics -- Precision Agriculture -- Processing Levels -- Public-Private Partnerships -- Radar, Altimeters -- Radar, Scatterometers -- Radar, Synthetic Aperture -- Radars -- Radiation (Natural) Within the Earth's Environment -- Radiation Sources (Natural) and Characteristics -- Radiation, Electromagnetic -- Radiation, Galactic, and Cosmic Background -- Radiation, Multiple Scattering -- Radiation, Polarization, and Coherence -- Radiation, Solar and Lunar -- Radiation, Volume Scattering -- Radiative Transfer, Solution Techniques -- Radiative Transfer, Theory -- Radio-Frequency Interference (RFI) in Passive Microwave Sensing -- Rainfall -- Rangelands and Grazing -- Reflected Solar Radiation Sensors, Multiangle Imaging -- Reflected Solar Radiation Sensors, Polarimetric -- Reflector Antennas -- Remote Sensing and Geologic Structure -- Remote Sensing, Historical Perspective -- Remote Sensing, Physics and Techniques -- Resource Exploration -- SAR-Based Bathymetry -- Sea Ice Albedo -- Sea Ice Concentration and Extent -- Sea Level Rise -- Sea Surface Salinity -- Sea Surface Temperature -- Sea Surface Wind/Stress Vector -- Severe Storms -- Snowfall -- Soil Moisture -- Soil Properties -- Solid Earth Mass Transport -- Stratospheric Ozone -- Subsidence -- Surface Radiative Fluxes -- Surface Truth -- Surface Water -- Terrestrial Snow -- Thermal Radiation Sensors (Emitted) -- Trace Gases, Stratosphere, and Mesosphere -- Trace Gases, Troposphere - Detection from Space -- Trafficability of Desert Terrains -- Tropospheric Winds -- Ultraviolet Remote Sensing -- Ultraviolet Sensors -- Urban Environments, Beijing Case Study -- Urban Heat Island -- Vegetation Indices -- Vegetation Phenology -- Volcanism -- Water and Energy Cycles -- Water Resources -- Water Vapor -- Weather Prediction -- Wetlands -- Author Index -- Subject Index.