Product Overview
From Follett
Includes bibliographical references and index. This book is intended to cover remote sensing as a process applied to solar system exploration, with emphasis on understanding and utilizing the entire electromagnetic spectrum. The goal is to create a common ground for those individuals and groups involved in every aspect of remote sensing, representing a wide range of science, engineering, and management disciplines. Despite their varying viewpoints and jargons, these scientist, engineers, and mission administrators nevertheless share the common goal of bringing remote sensing instruments, missions, and programs to fruition. The fostering of great understanding and appreciation of essential aspects of remote sensing brought to the table from each discipline will generate improved communication and working relationships to facilitate succesful future exploration. Introductory chapters describe preliminary planning and support systems as well as general principles of remote sensing and electromagnetic energy interactions. The body of the book covers energy generation, instrumentation, measurements, and their interpretation for major divisions of the electromagnetic spectrum, including the visible and circumvisible, ray, and long wave regions. Processing and fusion of remote sensing data in its many forms, as well as emerging technologies for data processing and delivery, are discussed in the final chapters.--Publisher's description.
From the Publisher
This will be a comprehensive book on remote sensing, covering the entire spectrum of energies, wave and particle interactions and field generation, spectrum and image production, from magnetosphere to surface, from high energy gamma-rays to low energy sonic waves, for the Earth and planets. Software and hardware tools specific to each spectral region for capturing, analyzing, and combining data will also be discussed. Earlier remote sensing books and methodologies focused on reviewing relatively limited parts of the electromagnetic spectrum or particular systems (surface, atmosphere). To understand behavior and origin of complex systems (e.g., global warming) data from different systems and different parts of the spectrum must be combined. This book reviews and creates the basis for those experts in one energy region or one system to gain insight in understanding and combining data from other regions and systems (data fusion). For the student, there are software tools (on CD) to simulate spectra/images for selected spectral regions. The book is, written to be accessible ( by minimizing discipline-specific jargon) for engineers and scientists in a wide range of fields as well as those planning to be engineers and scientists at the upper level college student or 'educated layman' level or above.