Remote Sensing Digital Image Analysis: An Introduction

Remote Sensing Digital Image Analysis provides the non-specialist with an introduction to quantitative evaluation of satellite and aircraft derived remotely retrieved data. Each chapter covers the pros and cons of digital remotely sensed data, without detailed mathematical treatment of computer based algorithms, but in a manner conductive to an understanding of their capabilities and limitations. Problems conclude each chapter. This fourth edition has been developed to reflect the changes that have occurred in this area over the past several years. Its focus is on those procedures that seem now to have become part of the set of tools regularly used to perform thematic mapping. As with previous revisions, the fundamental material has been preserved in its original form because of its tutorial value; its style has been revised in places and it has been supplemented if newer aspects have emerged in the time since the third edition appeared. It still meets, however, the needs of the senior student and practitioner.

John Richards has been active in remote sensing research for the past 30 years, mainly in image analysis and imaging radar and is the author of four books, all published by Springer. He is an electrical engineering graduate from the University of New South Wales, Australia, and a Life Fellow of the IEEE. John was foundation Director of the Centre for Remote Sensing at the University of New South Wales in the 1980s, and has had a career that has taken him through teaching and research in remote sensing and engineering. He has also served in senior academic administration including as Dean of the College of Engineering and Computer Science, and Vice-President of the Australian National University. John is an Emeritus Professor of both the Australian National University and the University of New South Wales.