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Forensic Remote Sensing

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The application rich areas of remote sensing devoted to environmental analysis and assessment successfully demonstrate how this technology can be employed to address important questions concerning resource management, environmental impact analysis, and environmental planning. Whether focused on understanding and documenting natural processes or studies that fall under the broad umbrella of human impact, the capabilities of image processing techniques to provide thematic information that illuminates critical land surface patterns or confirms underlying process-response hypotheses is irrefutable. Given the wealth of accumulated knowledge together with the agglomeration of methods designed to extract information from raw imagery, environmental remote sensing is poised to embark on a new agenda that moves remote sensing technology beyond its predilection for application research and into a more directed operational setting. Borrowing from the Latin word “forensic,” meaning public, we can call this new agenda forensic remote sensing.

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Lein, J.K. (2012). Forensic Remote Sensing. In: Environmental Sensing. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0143-8_12

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