5.1 Introduction 5.2 Agriculture 5.2.1 Crop Type Mapping 5.2.2 Crop Monitoring and Damage Assessment 5.3 Forestry 5.3.1 Clear Cut Mapping and Deforestation 5.3.2 Species Identification and Typing 5.3.3 Burn Mapping 5.4 Geology 5.4.1 Structural Mapping and Terrain Analysis 5.4.2 Geologic Unit Mapping 5.5 Hydrology 5.5.1 Flood Delineation and Mapping 5.5.2 Soil Moisture 5.6 Sea Ice 5.6.1 Ice Type and Concentration 5.6.2 Ice Motion 5.7 Land Cover and Land Use 5.7.1 Land Use Change (Rural / Urban) 5.7.2 Land Cover / Biomass Mapping 5.8 Mapping 5.8.1 Planimetry 5.8.2 Digital Elevation Models 5.8.3 Topographic and Baseline Thematic Mapping 5.9 Oceans and Coastal Monitoring 5.9.1 Ocean Features 5.9.2 Ocean Colour and Phytoplankton Concentration 5.9.3 Oil Spill Detection 5.10 Endnotes