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Summary
Summary
Introduction to Remote Sensing: Digital Image Processing and Applications presents a unique textbook/CD-ROM package. It explains how digital images can be processed and offers practical hands-on experience of image processing. This package, which is ideal for student self-study, institutional or library purchase, shows how digital images can be processed to maximize information output and discusses a range of environmental monitoring techniques. A range of case studies are explored, drawn from a variety of disciplines and from across the world. The book also includes a practical manual of image processing instruction and detailed practical exercises to support the unique CD-ROM which accompanies the book.
The CD-ROM, included with every book contains fully functioning image processing software - a limited edition of DRAGON software developed specifically for readers of Introductory Remote Sensing - and over 70 satellite digital datasets for 9 scenes across America, Ireland, China, Sudan, Peru, Western Europe and the UK.
Author Notes
Paul J. Gibson is a Senior Lecturer in Remote Sensing at the Department of Geography, National University of Ireland. Clare H. Power is a Senior Lecturer in Remote Sensing at the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Greenwich, UK.
Reviews 1
Choice Review
Gibson and colleagues discuss general principles and concepts of remote sensing, allowing this volume to serve as a typical introduction to the technology, along with its companion volume by Gibson and Power, Introductory Remote Sensing: Digital Image Processing and Applications (2000). With an organization and content standard to almost every other remote sensing book, the volume begins with a brief history of the technology and concisely reviews the fundamental physics of electromagnetic radiation, atmospheric interactions, and engineering aspects of imaging instruments. The volume then continues with a synopsis of imaging systems (though lacking in the recent advances) followed by a short chapter on applications organized by image resolution rather than the normal topical approach. Each chapter ends with a summary, self-test (answers in an appendix), and a list for further reading. Unlike most other books on the subject, this volume has a companion Web site that supplements the book with sample images, exercises with answers, and information on other remote sensing resources. This supplement, although not well coordinated with the book, has great potential as an auxiliary exercise book. Lower-division undergraduates. D. J. Campagna; College of William and Mary
Table of Contents
| Preface |
| Acknowledgement |
| Introduction |
| 1 A framework for cultural tourism studies |
| 2 Reconceptualising cultural tourism |
| 3 The impacts of cultural tourism |
| 4 European cultural tourism: integration and identity |
| 5 Cultural tourism, interpretation and representation |
| 6 The globalisation of heritage tourism |
| 7 Indigenous cultural tourism |
| 8 The arts, festivals and cultural tourism |
| 9 Cultural tourism and urban regeneration |
| Conclusion |
| Bibliography |
| Index |
