Escalante-Ramirez B. Remote Sensing: Advanced Techniques and Platforms

InTech. 2012. - 473 p.
We do not intend this book to cover all aspects of remote sensing techniques and platforms, since it would be an impossible task for a single volume. Instead, we have collected a number of high-quality, original and representative contributions in those areas. The first part of the book is devoted to new methodologies and techniques for data processing in remote sensing. The reader will find interesting contributions in forest characterization, data fusion, surface slopes statistical properties, multichannel and Markovian classification, road feature extraction, miscalibration correction, barometric pressure measurements, wireless sensors networks and lineament visualization. The second part of the book gathers chapters related to new sensors and platforms for remote sensing, including the new COMS satellite, hyperspectral remote sensing, mobile LIDAR for atmospheric remote sensing, SNR improvements in LIDAR, a smart station for data reception, terahertz radiation propagation, HF data transmission for very remote sensing, hardware image compression, wireless communications for underground sensors, and cold gas propulsion for remote sensing satellites.