Product Description

This is a unique interactive text package offering students step-by-step, practical hands-on experience of digital image processing. The hardback edition includes a CD-ROM with fully functional image processing software.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2460697 in Books
• Published on: 2000-08-24
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 288 pages

Review
'Compelling set of essays ... a broad-ranging and important collection.' - Journal of Economic Issues

Synopsis
Introduction to Remote Sensing: Digital Image Processing & Application s presents a unique textbook/CD-ROM package, explaining how digital images can be processed and offering students practical hands-on experience of image processing. This package, which is ideal for student self-study, classroom use or institutional purchase, shows how digital images images can be processed to maximise information output and discusses a range of environmental monitoring techniques. A range of case studies are explored, drawn from a variety of disciplines and from across the world's major regions. The final section of the book presents a Practical Manual of image processing instruction and detailed practical exercises to support the unique CD-ROM which accompanies the package. The accompanying CD-ROM contains fully functioning image processing software - a limited edition of DRAGON software developed specifically for readers of Introductory Remote Sensing - and over 70 satellite digital datasets for 9 scenes across America, Ireland, China, Sudan, Peru, Western Europe and the UK.

Presenting a unqiue hands-on image processing package, the practical manual and CD-ROM takes students, step-by-step, through the techniques of processing the data sets provided, in various combinations. This CD-ROM enables the display of 1,000s of different images, and the ability to perform various image manipulations and measure and analyse results.

From the Back Cover
Introduction to Remote Sensing: Digital Image Processing & Applications presents a unique textbook/CD-ROM package, explaining how digital images can be processed and offering students practical hands-on experience of image processing.
This package, which is ideal for student self-study, classroom use or institutional purchase, shows how digital images images can be processed to maximise information output and discusses a range of environmental monitoring techniques. A range of case studies are explored, drawn from a variety of disciplines and from across the world's major regions. The final section of the book presents a Practical Manual of image processing instruction and detailed practical exercises to support the unique CD-ROM which accompanies the package.
The accompanying CD-ROM contains fully functioning image processing software - a limited edition of DRAGON software developed specifically for readers of Introductory Remote Sensing - and over 70 satellite digital datasets for 9 scenes across America, Ireland, China, Sudan, Peru, Western Europe and the UK. Presenting a unqiue hands-on image processing package, the practical manual and CD-ROM takes students, step-by-step, through the techniques of processing the data sets provided, in various combinations. This CD-ROM enables the display of 1,000s of different images, and the ability to perform various image manipulations and measure and analyse results.