Essential Image Processing and GIS for Remote Sensing

Essential Image Processing and GIS for Remote Sensing is anaccessible overview of the subject and successfully draws togetherthese three key areas in a balanced and comprehensive manner. Thebook provides an overview of essential techniques and a selectionof key case studies in a variety of application areas.Key concepts and ideas are introduced in a clear and logicalmanner and described through the provision of numerous relevantconceptual illustrations. Mathematical detail is kept to a minimumand only referred to where necessary for ease of understanding.Such concepts are explained through common sense terms rather thanin rigorous mathematical detail when explaining image processingand GIS techniques, to enable students to grasp the essentials of anotoriously challenging subject area.The book is clearly divided into three parts, with the firstpart introducing essential image processing techniques for remotesensing. The second part looks at GIS and begins with an overviewof the concepts, structures and mechanisms by which GIS operates.Finally the third part introduces Remote Sensing Applications.Throughout the book the relationships between GIS, Image Processingand Remote Sensing are clearly identified to ensure that studentsare able to apply the various techniques that have been coveredappropriately. The latter chapters use numerous relevant casestudies to illustrate various remote sensing, image processing andGIS applications in practice.