An Introduction to Contemporary Remote Sensing

An Introduction to Contemporary Remote Sensing Earth from Space covers the latest developments in remote sensing and imaging science, especially those relevant to undergraduate students. Remote sensing is the technology behind revolutionary applications such as Google Earth. The information in this book will help you to optimize portable equipment design by understanding and selecting most ideal spatial imagery technique. This versatile book serves lower-division undergraduate students as a textbook and may also be used as a reference tool for various remote sensing workshops as well as for professionals and researchers in academia, government, and industries to acquire updated information on the newest developments in the field.

An Introduction to Contemporary Remote Sensing
• Contains helpful features, such as summaries, text boxes, review questions, key terms, and lab exercises
• Includes supplements—teacher’s manual, study guide, solutions, software, datasets, and further references for books, journals, and websites
• Can easily be converted for use in distance-education classes
• Provides the most up-to-date developments in remote sensing and imaging science, especially those relevant to undergraduate students
• Helps you optimize portable equipment design and select the most ideal spatial imagery technique

Qihao Weng, Ph.D., is a professor of geography and the director of the Center for Urban and Environmental Change at Indiana State University. From 2008 to 2009, he visited NASA as a senior research fellow. Dr. Weng is also a guest/adjunct professor at Wuhan University and Beijing rmal University, and a guest research scientist at Beijing Meteorological Bureau. He currently serves as national director for the American Society for Photogrammetric and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) and is an associate editor of ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetric and Remote Sensing.