First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Introduction to Remote Sensing, Second Edition provides a full and authoritative introduction for scientists who need to know the scope, potential, and limitations of remote sensing. Suitable for students and professionals with some background in the physical sciences, this book comprehensively surveys the basic principles behind remote sensing physics, techniques, and technology. It features updated and expanded material, including greater coverage of applications from across the earth, environmental, atmospheric, and oceanographic sciences. Illustrated with remotely sensed color images from satellites and aircraft, it also outlines data acquisition, interpretation, and analysis.

Taking a detailed, non-mathematical approach to the principles on which remote sensing is based, this book progresses from the physical principles to the application of remote sensing.

This is the first reference guide to focus on the polar and cold regions of the world as a whole. It is divided into three sections. Part 1 provides an overview of the literature on polar and cold regions, analysing the nature of polar literature which exhibits certain unusual features, particularly in the role played by expedition reports. Part 2 is a select bibliography, and Part 3 is an international directory of organizations related to the subject. A detailed index completes the work.

Providing a full introduction to remote sensing for all environmental scientists, this wide-ranging and authoritative text assumes no prior knowledge of remote sensing yet covers the field in sufficient depth to be suitable also as a research manual.