The Canada Centre for Remote Sensing is pleased to offer "Fundamentals of Remote Sensing", an online tutorial about remote sensing technology and its applications. This interactive module is intended as an overview at a senior high school or early university level and touches on physics, environmental sciences, mathematics, computer sciences and geography.
Fundamentals of Remote Sensing Tutorial is available as a downloadable compressed file for PC, Mac, and Unix machines.
This tutorial may be copied in any form and used for non-commercial purposes provided that: the content of any copy is not altered and, it is clearly indicated that the Canada Centre for Remote Sensing is the originator of this material.
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Publications/References Campbell, J.B. (1987) Introduction to Remote Sensing. The Guilford Press, New York.
Lillesand, T.M. and Kiefer, R.W. (1994) Remote Sensing and Image Interpretation. John Wiley and Sons Inc., New York.
Jensen, John R. (1986) Introductory Digital Image Processing. Prentice-Hall, New Jersey.
Russ, John C. (1995) The Image ... Processing Handbook. 2nd edition. CRC Press, Baca Raton.
Dougherty, Edward R. and Charles R. Giardina (1987) Matrix Structured Image Processing. Prentice-Hall, New Jersey.
Computer Eye: Handbook of Image Processing. Spatial Data Systems Inc., California.
Jain, Anil K. (1989) Fundamentals of Digital Image Processing. Prentice-Hall, New Jersey.
Wahl, Freidrich M. (1987) Digital Image Signal Processing. Artech House, Boston.
Yu, Francis T.S. and Suganda Jutamulia (1992) Optical Signal Processing, Computing, and Neural Networks. John Wiley & Sons, New York.
Canada Centre for Remote Sensing/Natural Resources Canada (1997). GlobeSAR2 Radar Image Processing and Information Extraction Workbook Version 1.2. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Barton, D. & S. Leonov (eds.) (1997) Radar technology encyclopedia, 511 p., Artec House, Norwood, MA, USA, ISBN 0-89006-893-3
Oliver, C. & S. Quegan (1998) Understanding synthetic aperture radar images, 479 p., Artech House, Norwood, MA, USA, ISBN 089006850X.
Werle D. (1988 and 1992) Radar Remote Sensing - A Training Manual, 193p, 75 35mm slides, Dendron Resource Surveys Ltd, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, ISBN 0-9693733-0-9
Creation and Review Dates
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2000-12-11
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2006-11-16