Physical principles of remote sensing

Physical principles of remote sensing thermal remote sensing. Fully updated and containing significant new material on photography, laser profiling and image processing, the third edition of this popular textbook covers. The book will be extremely helpful for the students who love remote sensing, but are not so professional in physics. It focuses on physical principles, giving students a deeper understanding of remote sensing systems and their possibilities, while remaining accessible to those. Physical principles of remote sensing third edition fullyupdatedandwithsigni. Remote sensing rs is generally defined as the science of collecting and interpreting information about a target without being in physical contact with the object under study. Request pdf physical principles of remote sensing substantially revised and expanded, this new edition includes a discussion of the radiative transfer. Hall and martinec 1985, jensen 1996, lillesand andkiefer 2000, and rees 2001 gave further information on the physical principles of remote sensing, and gao and liu 2001 and konig et al. We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. While the emissivity of a blackbody is always 1, real materials show a certain. This new edition textbook explains remote sensing of the earths surface and atmosphere from space using electromagnetic radiation. The principles of sensing in physical contact with an ob ject are beyond the scope of this book. Fully updated and containing significant new material on photography, laser profiling and image processing, the third edition of this popular textbook covers a broad range of remote sensing applications and techniques across the earth, environmental and planetary sciences. In this chapter, a brief history of the radio occultation remote sensing technique is introduced.

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