ABSTRACT

Containing useful information sources for the management of natural resources, this comprehensive text covers a large range of spatial resolutions and spectral characteristics. The book deals with the data sources and their physical interpretation, as well as processing techniques, such as visual interpretation and automated classifications, textural and structural processing and photogrammetry. There is a section on accuracy assessment and various applications relating to crops, grasslands, soils, landscapes, mines and coasts. The CD-ROM contains software and image data sets explaining the statistical methods of reference and contains a light version of the TeraVue software enabling the reader to compute the different processing spatial data.

part A|54 pages

Data Sources

chapter 1|30 pages

Physical Basis

chapter 2|22 pages

Sensors and Platforms

part B|38 pages

Physical Interpretation of Data

chapter 3|15 pages

Composition of Colours

chapter 4|21 pages

Spectral Characteristics

part C|187 pages

Processing and Interpretation

chapter 6|8 pages

Image Processing—General Features

chapter 7|23 pages

Preliminary Processing

chapter 8|23 pages

Unsupervised Classification

chapter 9|20 pages

Supervised Classification

chapter 10|6 pages

Image Processing Methodology

chapter 11|15 pages

Structural Processing of Satellite Images

chapter 12|26 pages

Digital Filtering of Images

chapter 14|26 pages

Fundamentals of Aerial Photography

part D|29 pages

Quality Assessment

chapter 15|10 pages

Scale Changes

chapter 16|7 pages

Criteria of Choice for the User

chapter 17|13 pages

Quality of Interpretation

part E|139 pages

Applications

chapter 18|18 pages

Agrolandscapes

chapter 19|14 pages

Corine Land Cover

chapter 21|12 pages

Wetlands

chapter 22|7 pages

Crop Inventory

chapter 23|23 pages

Soil Mapping

chapter 24|13 pages

Mining Geology

chapter 25|16 pages

Remote Sensing and Coastal-zone Management