Remote sensing has been a major source of data about the climate system for about 40 years. It also represents a considerable fraction of research expenditures towards understanding climate. I commend to your attention a new review on this subject: The role of satellite remote sensing in climate change studies Jun Yang, et al. Nature Climate Change DOI: 10.1038/NCLIMATE1908 For access, you can visit a library, PM me, or use the Journal website to ask from the corresponding author. I did the latter. As we have talked about air T, clouds, humidity, energy balance here (& maybe others?), it is good to take a look at where things stand. Hope you can find the time...
Looks interesting: http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nclimate1908.html I'll probably pick it up later this week. My first NASA work in 1978 was with early Landsat data. Later I worked on Landsat-D and supported other NASA missions. Now there are so many satellites, often launched by other countries. SPOT comes to mind as a satellite system with higher resolution than Landsat. Bob Wilson
