Remote Sensing Geology

• Main Author: Gupta, Ravi P. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 3rd ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Remote sensing.; Optical data processing.; Spectroscopy.; Microscopy.; Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry.; Image Processing and Computer Vision.; Spectroscopy and Microscopy.

Over the past decade, advances in sensor technology, processing algorithms, and computational capacity have taken remote sensing to a level where observations can be transformed into quantitative measurements, and the technology can be used in near real-time for mapping, monitoring and decision-maki...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction.- Physical Principles.- Spectra of Minerals and Rocks.- Photography.- Multispectral Imaging Techniques
•  Important Spaceborne Missions and Multispectral Sensors.- Geometric Aspects of Photographs and Images
•  Digital Elevation Model.- Image Quality and Principles of Interpretation.- Atmospheric Corrections.- Interpretation of Solar Reflection Data.-Interpretation of Thermal-IR Data.-   Digital Image Processing of Multispectral Data.- Imaging Spectroscopy.- Microwave Sensors.- Interpretation of SAR Imagery.- SAR Interferometry.- Integrating Remote Sensing Data with Other Geodata (GIS Approach)
•  Geological Applications.