Giles M Foody & Timothy A Warner 
The SAGE Handbook of Remote Sensing 

′A magnificent achievement. A who′s who of contemporary remote sensing have produced an engaging, wide-ranging and scholarly review of the field in just one volume′
– Professor Paul Curran, Vice-Chancellor, Bournemouth University

Remote Sensing acquires and interprets small or large-scale data about the Earth from a distance. Using a wide range of spatial, spectral, temporal, and radiometric scales Remote Sensing is a large and diverse field for which this Handbook will be the key research reference.

Organized in four key sections:

• Interactions of Electromagnetic Radiation with the Terrestrial Environment : chapters on Visible, Near-IR and Shortwave IR; Middle IR (3-5 micrometers); Thermal IR ; Microwave

• Digital sensors and Image Characteristics : chapters on Sensor Technology; Coarse Spatial Resolution Optical Sensors ; Medium Spatial Resolution Optical Sensors; Fine Spatial Resolution Optical Sensors; Video Imaging and Multispectral Digital Photography; Hyperspectral Sensors; Radar and Passive Microwave Sensors; Lidar

• Remote Sensing Analysis – Design and Implementation: chapters on Image Pre-Processing; Ground Data Collection; Integration with GIS; Quantitative Models in Remote Sensing; Validation and accuracy assessment;

• Remote Sensing Analysis – Applications: LITHOSPHERIC SCIENCES: chapters on Topography; Geology; Soils; PLANT SCIENCES: Vegetation; Agriculture; HYDROSPHERIC and CRYSOPHERIC SCIENCES: Hydrosphere: Fresh and Ocean Water; Cryosphere; GLOBAL CHANGE AND HUMAN ENVIRONMENTS: Earth Systems; Human Environments & Links to the Social Sciences; Real Time Monitoring Systems and Disaster Management; Land Cover Change

Illustrated throughout, an essential resource for the analysis of remotely sensed data, the SAGE Handbook of Remote Sensing provides researchers with a definitive statement of the core concepts and methodologies in the discipline.

Tabela de Conteúdo

Remote Sensing Data Selection Issues – Timothy A. Warner, Duane Nellis, and Giles M. Foody

PART ONE: INTRODUCTION

Remote Sensing Data Selection Issues – Timothy A. Warner, Duane Nellis, and Giles M. Foody

Remote Sensing Policy – Ray Harris

PART TWO: ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION & THE TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT

Visible, Near-IR & Shortwave IR Spectral Characteristics of Terrestrial Surfaces – Willem van Leeuwen

Interactions of Middle Infrared (3-5µm) Radiation with the Environment – Arthur Cracknell and D. S. Boyd

Thermal Remote Sensing in Earth Science Research – Dale Quattrochi and Jeffrey C. Luvall

Polarimetric SAR Phenomenology and Inversion Techniques for Vegetated Terrain – Mahta Moghaddam

PART THREE: DIGITAL SENSORS AND IMAGE CHARACTERISTICS

Optical Sensor Technology – John Kerekes

Fine spatial resolution optical sensors – Thierry Toutin

Moderate Spatial Resolution Optical Sensors – Samuel N. Goward, Terry Arvidson, Darrel L. Williams, Richard Irish and Jim Irons

Coarse Resolution Optical Sensors – Chris Justice and Compton Tucker

Airborne Digital Multispectral Imaging – Doug Stow, Lloyd L. Coulter and Cody A. Benkelman

PART FOUR: REMOTE SENSING ANALYSIS: DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION

Imaging Spectrometers – Michael Schaepma

Active and Passive Microwave Systems – Josef Kellndorfer and Kyle Mc Donald

Airborne Laser Scanning – Juha Hyyppä, W. Wagner, M. Hollaus and H. Hyyppä

Radiometry and reflectance: From terminology concepts to measured quantities – Gabriela Schaepman-Strub, Michael E. Schaepman, John V. Martonchik, Thomas H. Painter and Stefan Dangel

Pre-Processing of Optical Imagery – Freek van der Meer and Harald van der Werff and Steven de Jong

Surface Reference Data Collection – Chris Johannsen and Craig S. T. Daughtry

Integrating Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems – James Merchant and Sunil Narumalani

Image Classification – John Jensen, Jungho Im, Perry Hardin, Ryan R. Jensen

Quantitative Models and Inversion in Optical Remote Sensing – Shunlin Liang

Accuracy Assessment – Steve Stehman, Giles Foody

PART FIVE: REMOTE SENSING ANALYSIS: APPLICATIONS

A. LITHOSPHERIC SCIENCES

Making Sense of the Third Dimension Through Topographic Analysis – Yongxin Deng

Remote Sensing of Geology – Xianfeng Chen and David Campagna

Remote Sensing of Soils – Jim Campbell

B. PLANT SCIENCES

Remote sensing for studies of vegetation condition: Theory and application – Mike Wulder, Joanne C. White, Nicholas C. Coops and Stephanie Ortlepp

Remote Sensing of Cropland Agriculture – M. Duane Nellis, Kevin Price and Don Rundquist

C. HYDROSPHERIC & CRYSOPHERIC SCIENCES

Optical Remote Sensing of the Hydrosphere: From the open ocean to inland waters – Samantha Lavender

Remote Sensing of the Cryosphere – Jeff Dozier

D. GLOBAL CHANGE AND HUMAN ENVIRONMENTS

Remote Sensing for Terrestrial Biogeochemical Modeling – Greg Asner and Scott V. Ollinger

Remote Sensing of Urban Areas – Janet Nichol

Remote sensing and the social sciences – Kelley Crews and Stephen J. Walsh

Hazard Assessment and Disaster Management using Remote Sensing – Richard Teeuw, Paul Aplin, Nick Mc William, Toby Wicks, Matthieu Kervyn and Gerald Ernst

Remote Sensing of Land Cover Change – Timothy A. Warner, Abdullah Almutairi and Jong Yeol Lee

PART SIX:. CONCLUSIONS

Remote Sensing: A Look to the Future – Giles M. Foody, Timothy A. Warner and M. Duane Nellis

Sobre o autor

M. Duane Nellis began serving as the University of Idaho’s 17th president on July 1, 2009.

As the university′s chief executive officer, President M. Duane Nellis provides robust and engaging leadership for the University of Idaho by: supporting 42 statewide extension offices and university center locations in Boise, Coeur d’Alene and Idaho Falls; working with the WWAMI (Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, and Idaho) program to ensure that medical education in Idaho is supported, along with the 20 first-year medical students on the Moscow campus each year; and by being actively engaged with the university alumni, friends, donors, faculty, staff and students around the world to create a university that is more entrepreneurial, sustainable, international, interdisciplinary and diverse. Previously, Dr. Nellis served as provost and senior vice president of Kansas State University and oversaw 12 deans and 10 other units, including the offices of the vice provost for information technology services and the vice president for research. Dr. Nellis is recognized nationally and internationally for his research utilizing satellite data and geographic information systems to analyze various dimensions of the earth’s land surface. President M. Duane Nellis is a native of the Northwest. He was born in Spokane, Wash. He met and married his wife, Ruthie, while pursuing his bachelor′s degree in earth sciences/geography at Montana State University. He received his master′s and doctoral degrees in geography at Oregon State University.