Image processing and GIS for remote sensing :

Liu, Jian-Guo,

Image processing and GIS for remote sensing : Techniques and applications / Jian Guo Liu and Philippa J. Mason, Department of Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial College London. - Second edition. - Sussex : Wiley Blackwell, 2016. - xii, 457 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm

Previously published as: Essential image processing and GIS for remote sensing, 2009.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Digital image and display -- Point operations (contrast enhancement) -- Algebraic operations (multi-image point operations) -- Filtering and neighbourhood processing -- RGB-IHS transformation -- Image fusion techniques -- Principal component analysis (PCA) -- Image classification -- Image geometric operations -- Introduction to interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) technique -- Subpixel technology and its applications -- Geographical information systems -- Data models and structures -- Defining a coordinate space -- Operations -- Extracting information from point data : geostatistics -- Representing and exploiting surfaces -- Decision support and uncertainty -- Complex problems and multi-criterion evaluation -- Image processing and GIS operation strategy -- Thematic teaching case studies in SE Spain -- Research case studies -- Industrial case studies -- Concluding remarks.

This edition, as with the first, contintues to provide an application-driven package of essential techniques in image processing and GIS, together with case studies for demonstration and guidance in remote sensing applications.

9781118724200 (cloth)


Remote sensing.
Geographic information systems.
Image processing.


Earth (Planet)--Surface--Remote sensing.

621.3678 / LIU

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