Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics

Description

Beginning with the history and basic concepts of remote sensing and GIS, the book gives an exhaustive coverage of optical, thermal and microwave remote sensing, global navigation satellite systems (such as GPS), digital photogrammetry, visual image analysis, digital image processing, spatial and attribute data model, geospatial analysis, and planning, implementation and management of GIS. It also presents the modern trends of remote sensing and GIS with an illustrated discussion on its numerous applications. The appendices provide the prerequisites required for understanding remote sensing and GIS technology. This book provides basic principles and techniques of remote sensing, microwave remote sensing, with mapping technology, remote sensing platforms and sensors and data analysis techniques. Further, the book deals with GIS data quality issues, GIS data analysis and modelling, attribute data management, GIS data input & editing and integration & linkage of Remote Sensing and GIS. The Photogrammetry with very few topics of digital photogrammetry, Global Positioning System (GPS) and the applications like, Forest Resources Management, Watershed Management and Natural Disaster Management: Landslides are added. Since, the users of geometrics technology for various applications have been using high resolution image data, the photogrammetry with fundamental concepts are included for better understanding of the student community. The application chapters are the output of the sponsored research projects of the author. These chapters are very much useful to the students who focussed their research on geospatial technologies.