Earth from Above provides an easyintroduction to understanding and interpreting satellite images, usingillustrative examples to instruct on the fantastically informative new globaldata sets. Beginning with two short chapters on visible satellite images andradiation, the book then covers six key Earth-atmosphere variables on suchenvironmentally important topics as the Antarctic ozone hole, El Nino,deforestation, the missing carbon dilemma, and the effects of sea ice, snowcover, and volcanoes on atmospheric temperatures. A final chapter broadens thediscussion to consider satellite Earth observations in general.

The book is heavily illustrated, includingphotographs, maps, schematic diagrams, and 50 color-coded satellite images. Eachsection concludes with a list of questions encouraging the reader to review thetext and, in the case of sections with satellite image, to examine the imagesand find answers from them. Answers to all questions are provided at the back ofthe book.