E-book : Remote Sensing of Planet Earth

Edited by Yann Chemin

Monitoring of water and land objects enters a revolutionary age with the rise of ubiquitous remote sensing and public access. Earth monitoring satellites permit detailed, descriptive, quantitative, holistic, standardized, global evaluation of the state of the Earth skin in a manner that our actual Earthen civilization has never been able to before. The water monitoring topics covered in this book include the remote sensing of open water bodies, wetlands and small lakes, snow depth and underwater seagrass, along with a variety of remote sensing techniques, platforms, and sensors. The Earth monitoring topics include geomorphology, land cover in arid climate, and disaster assessment after a tsunami. Finally, advanced topics of remote sensing covers atmosphere analysis with GNSS signals, earthquake visual monitoring, and fundamental analyses of laser reflectometry in the atmosphere medium.

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Remote Sensing of Planet Earth

E-book : Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Edited by Pei-Gee Peter Ho

Remote Sensing is collecting and interpreting information on targets without being in physical contact with the objects. Aircraft, satellites ...etc are the major platforms for remote sensing observations. Unlike electrical, magnetic and gravity surveys that measure force fields, remote sensing technology is commonly referred to methods that employ electromagnetic energy as radio waves, light and heat as the means of detecting and measuring target characteristics. Geoscience is a study of nature world from the core of the earth, to the depths of oceans and to the outer space. This branch of study can help mitigate volcanic eruptions, floods, landslides ... etc terrible human life disaster and help develop ground water, mineral ores, fossil fuels and construction materials. Also, it studies physical, chemical reactions to understand the distribution of the nature resources. Therefore, the geoscience encompass earth, atmospheric, oceanography, pedology, petrology, mineralogy, hydrology and geology. This book covers latest and futuristic developments in remote sensing novel theory and applications by numerous scholars, researchers and experts. It is organized into 26 excellent chapters which include optical and infrared modeling, microwave scattering propagation, forests and vegetation, soils, ocean temperature, geographic information , object classification, data mining, image processing, passive optical sensor, multispectral and hyperspectral sensing, lidar, radiometer instruments, calibration, active microwave and SAR processing. Last but not the least, this book presented chapters that highlight frontier works in remote sensing information processing. I am very pleased to have leaders in the field to prepare and contribute their most current research and development work. Although no attempt is made to cover every topic in remote sensing and geoscience, these entire 26 remote sensing technology chapters shall give readers a good insight. All topics listed are equal important and significant.

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Geoscience and Remote Sensing

New IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine !!!

Beginning in March 2013, GRSS will publish the new IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine, which was approved by the IEEE Technical Activities Board in 2012. This is an important achievement for GRSS since it has never had a publication in the magazine format. The magazine will provide a new venue to publish high quality technical articles that by their very nature do not find a home in journals requiring scientific innovation but that provide relevant information to scientists, engineers, end-users, and students who interact in different ways with the geoscience and remote sensing disciplines.

http://www.grss-ieee.org/new-grss-magazine/

Free Remote Sensing Software :OPTICKS 4.10.0

Opticks is an expandable remote sensing and imagery analysis software platform that is free and open source. If you are interested you can learn about the history of Opticks.

If you've used commercial tools like: ERDAS IMAGINE, RemoteView, ENVI, or SOCET GXP, then you need to give Opticks a try. Unlike other competing tools, you can add capability to Opticks by creating an extension. Opticks provides the most advanced extension capability of any other remote sensing tool on the market.

Feature:

• Free and open source
• Supports the following file formats: NITF 2.0/2.1, GeoTIFF, ENVI, ASPAM/PAR, CGM, DTED, Generic RAW, ESRI Shapefile, HDF5, AVI, MPEG, JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP
• Zoom, pan, rotate spatially large datasets
• Quickly layer GIS features, annotations, results, and other information over your data to provide context
• Many image display controls such as colormap, histogram, transparency, etc.
• Support for datasets larger than four gigabytes
• Analysts can quickly combine steps using graphical wizards
• Support for processing data in its native interleave of BIP, BSQ or BIL
• Get extensions to drop in new capability.

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Image Analysis for ArcGIS

Interesting Courses  of image analysis for  ArcGIS


Table of content :

Introducing Image Analysis for ArcGIS . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . 1

Quick-start tutorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..…... . . . . . 9

Applying data tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . ….. . . . . . . 51

Using Data Preparation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...... .. . . . . . . . 67

Performing Spatial Enhancement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  . 79

Using Radiometric Enhancement . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Applying Spectral Enhancement  . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . .. . . . . 109

Performing GIS Analysis  . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. .. . . . . . . .. . . . 121

Using Utilities  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..….. . . . . . . . . . 137

Understanding Classification . . . . . . . . . …. . .. . . . . . . . . . 145

Using Conversion  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ……. . . . . . 159

Applying GeoCorrection tools  . . . . . . . . . . . .. … . . . . . . . . 167

To download  the course :

http://gis.depaul.edu/geography/courses/243/IAfA.pdf

PCI GEOMATICS

PCI Geomatics is the developer of Geomatica - a complete and integrated desktop software that features tools for remote sensing, digital photogrammetry, geospatial analysis, map production, mosaicking and Standard image processing capabilities including:

Image enhancements
Filtering
Resampling, reprojection and clipping
Optical satellite image analysis including:
Atmospheric correction
Pixel-based image classification
Contextual/fuzzy classification
Neural network classification
Spectral unmixing
Attribute management tools for analysis with your data including:
Attribute Manager for viewing, editing and querying
Charting
Direct access to more than 100 geospatial data formats through the PCI Geomatics exclusive Generic Database (GDB) technology.
3-D perspective scene generation and fly-throughe.

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Tutorials