Guilford Press

Introduction to Remote Sensing

• By James B. Campbell

• Price: $57.95
• Binding: Paperback
• Pages: 546
• Published by: Taylor and Francis
• Publication Date: 11th January 2007
• Illustrations: 28 colour plates, 380 b+w illustrations
• ISBN: 978-0-415-41688-7

About the Book

Now in its revised and updated fourth edition, this popular text presents a timely overview of the most widely used forms of remote sensing imagery and their applications in plant sciences, hydrology, earth sciences, and land-use analysis. Introduction to Remote Sensing, Fourth Edition features new coverage of lidar technology, radar interferometry, and the present generation of satellite sensors, as well as other topics of current significance. Integrating knowledge from the many fields that contribute to remote sensing, the text is richly illustrated with 28 color plates and more than 380 black-and-white images and figures.

New in the fourth edition:

A new chapter devoted specifically to lidar
Coverage of phenology and plant pathology applications
Revised examples and illustrations in the Image Interpretation chapter
Restructured chapters on GIS, Land Use and Land Cover, and Earth Sciences, designed for practical utility

Table of Contents

Part I Foundations: 1. History and Scope of Remote Sensing 2.Electromagenetic Radiation Part II Image Acquisition: 3.Photographic Sensors 4.Digital Data 5.Image Interpretation 6.Land Observation Satellites 7.Active Microwave 8.Lidar 9.Thermal Radiation 10.Image Resolution Part III Analysis: 11.Reprocessing 12.Image Classification 13.Field Data 14.Accuracy Assessment 15.Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Part IV Applications: 16 Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems 17.Plant Sciences 18.Earth Sciences 19.Hydrospheric Sciences 20.Land Use and Land Cover 21.Global Remote Sensing

About the Author(s)

James B. Campbell is Professor of Geography and co-director of the Center for Environmental Analysis of Remote Sensing at Virginia Tech.