ABSTRACT
The nature of radiation interactions and their potential effect on the process of radiometric image correction are evaluated. Temperature monitoring through remote sensing can be useful for several agricultural, urban and environmental applications. A data processing flow for calibration of radiant temperature data into physical values is performed to enable monitoring radiant temperature variation in a geographic region of interest with remote sensing data. Heat islands in urban construction sites are observed when compared to the tree-covered vegetation and water region. Solved exercises are presented to determine the atmospheric transmittance coefficient for a location, make a graph of the electromagnetic spectrum among other exercises on quantum physics, remote sensing in the thermal infrared, and explanation of concepts about physical variables related to light obtained during the process of monitoring targets in the atmosphere and on the Earth's surface.
