Remote Sensing Digital Image Analysis: An Introduction

by John A. Richards

Overview

This book 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, in a manner conducive to understanding their capabilities and limitations.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783642300622
Publisher:	Springer-Verlag New York, LLC
Publication date:	09/13/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	9 MB

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Sources and characteristics of remote sensing image data.- correcting and registering images.- interpreting images.- radiometric enhancement of images.- geometric processing and enhancement: image domain techniques.- spectral domain image transforms.- spatial domain image transforms.- supervised classification techniques.- clustering and unsupervised classification.- Feature Reduction.- Image Classification in Practice.- Multisource Image Analysis.