Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Remote Sensing is a unique advanced text which covers the fundamental science underlying the rapidly growing field of remote sensing. Unlike similar books, which focus on one aspect of remote sensing, it treats the subject as a continuous process, including energy-matter interaction, radiation propagation, and data dissemination, and emphasizes the tools and procedures required to extract information from remotely sensed data using the image chain approach. Using the image chain analogy, the component processes are linked together using a common quantitative terminology that can be used to study physical parameters (e.g., reflectance and temperature) that are related to the type and condition of land cover features. This approach has evolved from over a decade of the author's teaching experience with undergraduate and graduate students and two decades of research and consulting experience on remote sensing problems for government and industry. Remote Sensing is ideal as a first text in remote sensing for graduate students and advanced undergraduates in the physical or engineering sciences, and will also serve as a valuable reference for the many practitioners of remote sensing throughout government and industry who were trained in the traditional technical disciplines and need to know how to better apply them to the remote sensing process.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• 1 Introduction
• 2 Historical Perspective and Photo Mensuration
• 3 Radiometry and Radiation Propagation
• 4 The Governing Equation for Radiance Reaching the Sensor
• 5 Sensors
• 6 Atmospheric Calibration - Solutions to the Governing Equation
• 7 Digital Image Processing for Image Exploitation
• 8 Information Dissemination
• 9 Weak Links in the Chain
• 10 Image Modeling

Reviews provided by Syndetics

CHOICE Review

Remote sensing is a rapidly evolving field. Schott (imaging science; director, Digital and Remote Sensing Laboratory, Rochester Institute of Technology) offers this new edition (1st ed., CH, Apr'98, 35-4512) that describes the tools and procedures required to extract information from remotely sensed data using the image chain approach. Schott explains that his intent with this book, reinforced by his own teaching, is to treat the process of study of remote sensing as a continuous flow of information to the eventual user. He examines the limitations obstructing the flow of information to the user, specifically exploring topics of energy-matter interaction, radiation propagation, and data dissemination. Additionally, in this new edition, he pays special attention to spectroscopic imaging and image processing, particularly heeding spectral image processing algorithms. Schott generally focuses on aerial and satellite imaging for Earth observation, with special attention paid to remote sensing done passively in the visible through thermal infrared region. Most remote sensing practitioners, as well as students pursuing the field, will find this book beneficial. Numerous graphics serve as examples. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals. W. Weston San Diego State University

Author notes provided by Syndetics

John R. Schott is at Rochester Institute of Technology.