Schott J. Remote Sensing. The Image Chain Approach

New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. — 700 p.Much of the remote sensing literature is written by and for the applications specialists who are users of remotely sensed data. The remote sensing "science" is often neglected or given only cursory treatment because of the need to stress the principles of the application area (e.g. geography, geology, forestry). Those books that more directly address remote sensing as a discipline have tended to heavily emphasize either the optics and physics of remote sensing or the digital image processing aspects.This book treats remote sensing as a continuous process, including energymatter interaction, radiation propagation, sensor characteristics and effects, image processing, data fusion, and data dissemination. The emphasis is on the tools and procedures required to extract information from remotely sensed data using the image chain approach.