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Preface to the First Edition | |
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Preface to the Second Edition | |
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Preface to the Third Edition | |
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List of Examples | |
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Remote Sensing: Basic Principles | |
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Introduction | |
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Electromagnetic radiation and its properties | |
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Terminology | |
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Nature of electromagnetic radiation | |
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The electromagnetic spectrum | |
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Sources of electromagnetic radiation | |
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Interactions with the Earth's atmosphere | |
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Interaction with Earth-surface materials | |
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Introduction | |
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Spectral reflectance of Earth surface materials | |
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Summary | |
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Remote Sensing Platforms and Sensors | |
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Introduction | |
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Characteristics of imaging remote sensing instruments | |
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Spatial resolution | |
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Spectral resolution | |
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Radiometric resolution | |
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Optical, near-infrared and thermal imaging sensors | |
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Along-Track Scanning Radiometer (ATSR | |
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Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR | |
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MODIS MODerate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer | |
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Ocean observing instruments | |
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IRS-1 LISS | |
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Landsat Instruments | |
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SPOT sensors | |
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Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER | |
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High-resolution commercial and micro-satellite systems | |
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Microwave imaging sensors | |
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ERS SAR | |
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RADARSAT | |
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Summary | |
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Hardware and Software Aspects of Digital Image Processing | |
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Introduction | |
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Properties of digital remote sensing data | |
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Digital data | |
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Data formats | |
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System processing | |
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MIPS software | |
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Installing MIPS | |
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Using MIPS | |
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Summary of MIPS functions | |
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Summary | |
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Pre-processing of Remotely Sensed Data | |
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Introduction | |
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Cosmetic operations | |
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Missing scan lines | |
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De-striping methods | |
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Geometric correction and registration | |
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Orbital geometry model | |
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Transformation based on ground control points | |
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Resampling procedures | |
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Image registration | |
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Other geometric correction methods | |
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Atmospheric correction | |
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Background | |
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Image-based methods | |
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Radiative transfer models | |
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Empirical line method | |
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Illumination and view angle effects | |
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Sensor calibration | |
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Terrain effects | |
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Summary | |
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Image Enhancement Techniques | |
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Introduction | |
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Human visual system | |
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Contrast enhancement | |
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Linear contrast stretch | |
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Histogram equalisation | |
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Gaussian Stretch | |
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Pseudocolour enhancement | |
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Density slicing | |
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Pseudocolour transform | |
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Summary | |
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Image Transforms | |
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Introduction | |
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Arithmetic operations | |
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Image addition | |
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Image subtraction | |
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Image multiplication | |
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Image division and vegetation Indices | |
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Empirically based image transforms | |
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Perpendicular Vegetation Index | |
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Tasselled Cap (Kauth-Thomas) transformation | |
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Principal Components Analysis | |
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Standard Principal Components Analysis | |
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Noise-adjusted Principal Components Analysis | |
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Decorrelation stretch | |
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Hue, Saturation and Intensity (HIS) transform | |
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The Discrete Fourier Transform | |
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Introduction | |
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Two-dimensional DFT | |
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Applications of the DFT | |
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The Discrete Wavelet Transform | |
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Introduction | |
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The one-dimensional Discrete Wavelet Transform | |
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The two-dimensional Discrete Wavelet Transform | |
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Summary | |
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Filtering Techniques | |
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Introduction | |
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Spatial domain low-pass (smoothing) filters | |
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Moving average filter | |
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Median filter | |
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Adaptive filters | |
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Spatial domain high-pass (sharpening) filters | |
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Image subtraction method | |
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Derivative-based methods | |
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Spatial domain edge detectors | |
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Frequency domain filters | |
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Summary | |
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Classification | |
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Introduction | |
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Geometrical basis of classification | |
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Unsupervised classification | |
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The k-means algorithm | |
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ISODATA | |
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A modified k-means algorithm | |
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Supervised classification | |
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Training samples | |
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Statistical classifiers | |
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Neural Classifiers | |
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Fuzzy classification and linear spectral unmixing | |
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The linear mixture model | |
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Fuzzy classifiers | |
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Other approaches to image classification | |
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Incorporation of non-spectral features | |
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Texture | |
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Use of external data | |
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Contextual information | |
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Feature selection | |
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Classification accuracy | |
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Summary | |
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Advanced Topics | |
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Introduction | |
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SAR Interferometry | |
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Basic principles | |
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Interferometric processing | |
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Problems in SAR interferometry | |
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Applications of SAR interferometry | |
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Imaging spectrometry | |
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Introduction | |
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Processing imaging spectrometer data | |
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Lidar | |
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Introduction | |
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Lidar details | |
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Lidar applications | |
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Summary | |
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Using the CD-ROM Image Data Sets | |
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References | |
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Index | |