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Remote Sensing

Principles and Applications, Third Edition

Floyd F. Sabins

Designed for an introductory course in remote sensing, this highly regarded text offers 28 pages with color photos, Sabins’ trademark clarity, and comprehensive coverage. The first chapter vividly introduces the major remote sensing systems and the interactions between electromagnetic energy and materials that are the basis for remote sensing. Six following chapters describe the major imaging systems. After a digital image–processing chapter, Sabins devotes the rest of the text to descriptions of practical applications of remote sensing to environmental monitoring, oil and mineral exploration, land-use and geographic information systems, and natural hazards.

$59.95 list, 494  pages

10-digit ISBN: 1-57766-507-4

13-digit ISBN: 978-1-57766-507-6

© 1997

“. . . a tour de force, standing head and shoulders above the competition.”   — Michael Abrams, GSA Today

 “The author’s long experience is evident, both as a teacher of courses and workshops and as a research scientist at Chevron.”  — John Woodside, The Leading Edge

 “Sabins does it again . . . for many of us, there is only one remote sensing author and Floyd wins my vote again.”     — Fons Dekker, EOM

 “I have always liked the book for its attractive layout, excellent diagrams and clear, authoritative writing.”      — Daniel N. M. Donoghue, International Journal of Remote Sensing

 “. . . an answer to the great advances in remote sensing . . .”  — AAPG Bulletin

Table of Contents

1. Introduction to Concepts and Systems

Units of Measure / Electromagnetic Energy / Electromagnetic Spectrum / Image Characteristics / Vision / Remote Sensing Systems / Spectral Reflectance Curves / Multispectral Imaging Systems / Hyperspectral Scanning Systems / Sources of Remote Sensing Information

2. Photographs from Aircraft and Satellites

Interactions between Light and Matter / Film Technology / Characteristics of Aerial Photographs / Photomosaics / Stereo Pairs of Aerial Photographs / Low-Sun-Angle Photographs / Black-and-White Photographs / Color Science / Normal Color Photographs / IR Color Photographs / Normal Color and IR Color Photographs Compared / High-Altitude Aerial Photographs / Sources of Aerial Photographs / New Technology / Photographs from Satellites

3. Landsat Images

Landsats 1, 2, and 3 / Landsats 4 and 5 / Orbit Patterns / Path-and-Row Index Maps / Selecting and Ordering Images / Landsat Mosaics / Regional Interpretation, Saudi Arabia / Detailed Image Interpretation, Saharan Atlas Mountains, Algeria / Seasonal Influence on Images / Lineaments / Plate-Tectonic Interpretations

4. Earth Resource and Environmental Satellites

SPOT Satellite, France / SPOT and Landsat Images Compared / JERS-1 Satellite, Japan / India Remote Sensing Satellite / Geostationary Environmental Satellites / Polar-Orbiting NOAA Environmental Satellites / Environmental and Earth Resources Images Compared / Future Satellite Systems

5. Thermal Infrared Images

Thermal Processes and Properties / IR Detection and Imaging Technology / Characteristics of IR Images / Conducting Airborne IR Surveys / Land Use and Land Cover—Ann Arbor, Michigan / Heat-Loss Surveys / Indio Hills, California / Imler Road Area, California / Western Transvaal, South Africa / Mauna Loa, Hawaii / Satellite Thermal IR Images / Thermal IR Spectra / Thermal IR Multispectral Scanner

6. Radar Technology and Terrain Interactions

Radar Systems / Characteristics of Radar Images / Radar Return and Image Signatures / Polarization / Interferometry

7. Satellite Radar Systems and Images

Seasat / SIR-A Mission / SIR-A Images of Tropical Terrain, Indonesia / Radar Interaction with Vegetated Terrain / SIR-A Images of Desert Terrain, Eastern Sahara / Radar Interaction with Sand-Covered Terrain / Land Use and Land Cover, Imperial Valley, California / SIR-B Mission / SIR-C Mission / JERS-1 / ERS-1 / Almaz-1 / Radarsat / Magellan Mission to Venus

8. Digital Image Processing

Structure of Digital Images / Image-Processing Overview / Image Restoration / Image Enhancement / Information Extraction / Hardware and Software for Image Processing

9. Meteorologic, Oceanographic, and Environmental Applications

UV Radiation and Ozone Concentration / Climate and Weather / Ocean Productivity / Ocean Currents / Sea Ice / Bathymetry / Environmental Pollution

10. Oil Exploration

Exploration Programs / Sudan Project / Papua New Guinea Project / Central Arabian Arch Project / Oil Exploration Research / Other Energy Resources

11. Mineral Exploration

Regional Lineaments and Ore Deposits of Nevada / Regional Lineaments and Ore Deposits of South Africa and Australia / Local Fractures and Ore Deposits / Mapping Hydrothermally Altered Rocks / Goldfield Mining District, Nevada / Porphyry Copper Deposits / Collahausi Mining District, Chile / Borate Minerals, Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia / Additional Mineral Exploration Projects / Hyperspectral Scanners for Mineral Exploration / Strategy for Mineral Exploration / Mineral Exploration in Covered Terrain

12. Land Use and Land Cover: Geographic Information Systems

Need to Classify Land Use and Land Cover / Multilevel Classification System / Multilevel Classification System of the Los Angeles Region / Digital Classification of Land Use, Las Vegas, Nevada / Interpreting Land Use and Changes in Phoenix, Arizona / Vegetation Mapping with AVHRR Images / Geographic Information Systems / Archaeology

13. Natural Hazards

Earthquakes / Landslides / Land Subsidence / Volcanoes / Floods / Forest and Range Fires

14. Comparing Image Types: Summary

Death Valley / Summary

Appendix: Basic Geology for Remote Sensing