Computer Processing of Remotely-Sensed Images (eBook)

This fourth and full colour edition updates and expands a
widely-used textbook aimed at advanced undergraduate and
postgraduate students taking courses in remote sensing and GIS in
Geography, Geology and Earth/Environmental Science departments.
Existing material has been brought up to date and new material has
been added. In particular, a new chapter, exploring the two-way
links between remote sensing and environmental GIS, has been added.

New and updated material includes:

* A website at href="http://www.wiley.com/go/mather4">www.wiley.com/go/mather4
that provides access to an updated and expanded version of the MIPS
image processing software for Microsoft Windows, PowerPoint
slideshows of the figures from each chapter, and case studies,
including full data sets,

* Includes new chapter on Remote Sensing and Environmental GIS
that provides insights into the ways in which remotely-sensed data
can be used synergistically with other spatial data sets, including
hydrogeological and archaeological applications,

* New section on image processing from a computer science
perspective presented in a non-technical way, including some
remarks on statistics,

* New material on image transforms, including the analysis of
temporal change and data fusion techniques,

* New material on image classification including decision trees,
support vector machines and independent components analysis,
and

* Now in full colour throughout.

This book provides the material required for a single semester
course in Environmental Remote Sensing plus additional, more
advanced, reading for students specialising in some aspect of the
subject. It is written largely in non-technical language yet it
provides insights into more advanced topics that some may consider
too difficult for a non-mathematician to understand. The case
studies available from the website are fully-documented research
projects complete with original data sets. For readers who do not
have access to commercial image processing software, MIPS provides
a licence-free, intuitive and comprehensive alternative.