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In remote sensing energy emanating from the earth’s surface is measured using a sensor mounted on an aircraft or spacecraft platform. That measurement is used to construct an image of the landscape beneath the platform, as depicted in Fig. 1.1.
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For a treatment of remote sensing at microwave wavelengths see J.A. Richards, Remote Sensing with Imaging Radar, Springer, Berlin, 2009.
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See Appendix B.
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See Richards, loc. cit., I.H. Woodhouse, Introduction to Microwave Remote Sensing, Taylor and Francis, Boca Raton, Florida, 2006, or F.M. Henderson and A.J. Lewis, eds., Principles and Applications of Imaging Radar, Manual of Remote Sensing, 3rd ed., Volume 2, John Wiley and Sons, N.Y., 1998.
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See Richards, loc. cit., for information on image analysis tools specifically designed for radar imagery.
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See R.M. Hofer, Biological and Physical Considerations in Applying Computer-aided Analysis Techniques to Remote Sensor Data, Chap. 5 in P. H. Swain and S.M. Davis, eds., Remote Sensing: the Quantitative Approach, McGraw-Hill, N.Y., 1978.
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There is a special section on data mining in IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 45, no. 4, April 2007. The Introduction, in particular, gives a good description of the field.
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Perhaps the best-known examples are Google© Earth and NASA’s World Wind.
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See the special issue on the sensor web of the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observation and Remote Sensing, vol. 3, no. 4, December 2010.
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The content of Gore’s speech is captured in A. Gore, The Digital Earth: Understanding our planet in the 21st Century, Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, vol. 65, no. 5, 1999, p. 528.
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Richards, J.A. (2013). Sources and Characteristics of Remote Sensing Image Data. In: Remote Sensing Digital Image Analysis. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30062-2_1
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