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For one-semester courses in Introductory Remote Sensing as well as Introductory Airphoto Interpretation.
This widely adopted book introduces the fundamentals of remote sensing from an earth resource (versus engineering) perspective. Emphasis is on turning remote sensing data into useful spatial biophysical or socio-economic information that can be used to make decisions.
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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Best overall coverage of the topic I've found
7 Nov 2005
Format:Hardcover
This text found its way into my collection during my undergraduate career as required for a Geography course in remote sensing. I ejoyed it as an introduction to the topic but later found myself returning to it time and again in graduate school working on a remote sensing thesis. I keep on finding new reasons to open it up in my business, at Terra Prints. It's exhaustive while not exhausting. Worth buying.
Roland Clark
Roland Clark
16 of 18 people found the following review helpful
excellent!
17 Feb 2001
Format:Hardcover
This book covers broad area of remote sensing; nature, physics, photogrametry, history, various types of sensors (multispectral, thermal, Microwabe..), earth resource perspective(vegetation, water, urban landscape, soil&mineral...). So if you want to learn how remote sesning are employed in this world, I strongly recommend to buy this book. if you want to learn digital image processing, you should buy the sister book "Introductory Digital Image Processing: remote sensing perspective".
All sections (especially vegetation) contains alot of infomation and easy to understand with nice figures and pictures.
Only one fault of this book is this price...
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Cutting edge, but needs work
14 Mar 2008
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This text book is extraordinarily detailed, and provides not only the concepts, but the theory and nuance for beginning in remote sensing. While studying this book, in detail, I have run into the following complaints, though:
1) The glossary and index are so incomplete, they're desolate. Important and conceptual terms that are used are not in either - it makes using the book quite difficult.
2) There is WAY too much minutia - the text is very informative, but I've found that the explanations of most things are excessively verbose.
3) Remote sensing is a very visual field.... and this book doesn't utilize diagrams and images nearly as much as it could/should. I realize that generating diagrams is time-consuming, but it would help this book immensely.
4) Chapter summaries and concept-based questions at the end of the chapters would probably help students a lot, too (perhaps even teachers).
5) There's not nearly enough talk about which EM bands see what, and what they help with. That's the entire basis of remote sensing, and it isn't explored in the detail that it could be.
So, while I recommend this text, because it is one-of-a-kind, I do so with the warning that it is obviously not a fine-tuned text yet.
1) The glossary and index are so incomplete, they're desolate. Important and conceptual terms that are used are not in either - it makes using the book quite difficult.
2) There is WAY too much minutia - the text is very informative, but I've found that the explanations of most things are excessively verbose.
3) Remote sensing is a very visual field.... and this book doesn't utilize diagrams and images nearly as much as it could/should. I realize that generating diagrams is time-consuming, but it would help this book immensely.
4) Chapter summaries and concept-based questions at the end of the chapters would probably help students a lot, too (perhaps even teachers).
5) There's not nearly enough talk about which EM bands see what, and what they help with. That's the entire basis of remote sensing, and it isn't explored in the detail that it could be.
So, while I recommend this text, because it is one-of-a-kind, I do so with the warning that it is obviously not a fine-tuned text yet.
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