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An Overview of Remote Sensing and Image Processing. by Miles Logsdon with thanks to Robin Weeks and Frank Westerlund. What is Remote Sensing?.
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An Overview of Remote Sensing and Image Processing by Miles Logsdon with thanks to Robin Weeks and Frank Westerlund
What is Remote Sensing? • Remote Sensing is a technology for sampling radiation and force fields to acquire and interpret geospatial data to develop information about features, objects, and classes on Earth's land surface, oceans, and atmosphere (and, where applicable, on the exterior's of other bodies in the solar system). • Remote Sensing is detecting and measuring of electromagnetic energy (usually photons) emanating from distant objects made of various materials, so that we can identify and categorize these object by class or type, substance, and spatial distribution.
Land surface from satellite • Four landsat-5 Thematic Mapper multispectral image mosaic displayed in 4,3,2-RGB (false color) • August 2nd and 27th, 1998, 10:15a.m. pst. • 16 day repeat, 30m
Ocean Color • SeaWiFs classified ocean color image with unclassified land surface displayed 632-RGB • August 16th, 1999 • Daily, 1km
Time series One year of daily AVHRR at 1km of the Amazon Basin
Extra Info http://courses.washington.edu/urbdp467/handouts.html
Band Combinations 3,2,1 4,3,2 5,4,3
Unsupervised ClassificationISODATA - Iterative Self-Organizing Data Analysis Technique
Classification Systems http://courses.washington.edu/urbdp467/classify.html
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