Practical Handbook of Remote Sensing - Samantha Lavender, Andrew Lavender

Practical Handbook of Remote Sensing

Buch | Softcover
268 Seiten
2015
Productivity Press (Verlag)
978-1-4987-0433-5 (ISBN)
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A Beginner’s Guide to the World of Satellite Data

Over a thousand active satellites are in orbit around the Earth with applications including navigation, the transmission of data and satellite remote sensing; a space-based technology providing data accessible to everyone. The Practical Handbook of Remote Sensing offers a complete understanding of the basic scientific principles needed to perform practical remote sensing at home or at work, using a personal computer. This book contains the information needed to effectively find, download, analyze, and view environmental data. Written by an expert with more than 15 years of experience along with the perspective of a non-expert navigating his way through remote sensing for the first time, it serves as a guidebook for anyone wanting to use remote sensing technology without becoming an expert on the subject.

No Previous Knowledge Required

The book explains the science behind remote sensing; describing what it is, how it works, and how it can be used in real life applications. Using just a standard personal computer, the authors help readers discover a wide variety of satellite imagery and how these images can be used to monitor environmental changes in real-world application areas: urban environments, natural landscape, terrestrial water cycle, and coastal environments. The book primarily concentrates on practically using optical data from the Landsat missions with further examples based on MODIS, TerraSAR-X and pre-processed datasets such as those provided by the Copernicus Services. It also provides a review of near-future developments in satellites, sensors, and the processing of data, along with a review of near-future applications and longer-term developments.

In addition, this book:






Includes a complementary website providing additional support, satellite images, videos, updates on satellite data and a FAQ/forum to answer readers’ questions



Gives readers detailed hands-on practical exercises on how to find, download, process and visualize freely available satellite remote sensing data, coupled with result-comparisons



Demonstrates how satellite data can be used to provide a range of environmental monitoring for both small local areas and across the globe

Dr. Samantha Lavender has more than 15 years of remote sensing research experience, with a focus on the use of Earth observation. After a PhD focused on the remote sensing of the Humber plume using airborne data, she was a researcher at Plymouth Marine Laboratory and then a lecturer at the University of Plymouth. In 2012, with Andrew, she formed Pixalytics Ltd and is the Managing Director of this commercial remote sensing company. She has an ongoing active interest in research alongside widening the community using remotely sensed data. She’s also director of Ocean Nourishment Ltd, an honorary reader of geomatics at Plymouth University and chairman of the British Association of Remote Sensing Companies (BARSC), having previously been chairman of the Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Society (RSPSoc). Mr. Andrew Lavender is a novice remote sensor, with three months experience. He works alongside his wife at Pixalytics Ltd, focusing on the administrative and social media side of the company. He is a short story and flash fiction writer and teaches creative writing.

What Is Remote Sensing? How Does Remote Sensing Work? Data Available from Remote Sensing. Basic Remote Sensing Using Landsat Data. Introduction to Image Processing. Practical Image Processing. Geographic Information System and an Introduction to QGIS. Urban Environments and Their Signatures. Landscape Evolution. Inland Waters and the Water Cycle. Coastal Waters and Coastline Evolution. Where to Next?

Zusatzinfo 2 Tables, black and white; 70 Illustrations, color; 114 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort Portland
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 385 g
Themenwelt Naturwissenschaften Geowissenschaften Geografie / Kartografie
Naturwissenschaften Geowissenschaften Geologie
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Theorie
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Staat / Verwaltung
ISBN-10 1-4987-0433-6 / 1498704336
ISBN-13 978-1-4987-0433-5 / 9781498704335
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