Comprehensive Remote Sensing

Remote sensing, monitoring Earth’s environment mainly from airborne platforms and satellites, is growing rapidly. A growing number of researchers, with diverse backgrounds, use remotely sensed data. The new edition of Comprehensive Remote Sensing answers their need to find up-to-date, in-depth accounts of the many facets of this field, ranging from principles and data analysis to applications. All new development in the field are included, with a special focus on areas such as satellite missions, sensors, models, practical inversion algorithms and applications.

Besides governments, many private companies have started to launch satellites. Faster computers and cheaper data storage enable massive data processing and analysis. As such, remote sensing has become fundamental to the work of geographers, oceanographers, meteorologists, physicists, computer scientists and many others. Comprehensive Remote Sensing acknowledges such diversity with structured chapters, each including fundamental concepts and principles first, followed by extensive review of the latest developments and a complete list of references. As such it is a valuable resource to readers at different level of specialization.

Volume 1 has a special focus on satellite missions and sensors; Volume 2 includes cloud and shadow detection techniques, ARD techniques for high-resolution data and machine learning; Volumes 3-8 include advances from new inversion methods and spatio-temporal analyses revealing environmental variables under a changing climate; Volume 9 focuses on remote sensing applications as they have entered a spectacularly new era with the availability of huge high-resolution satellite and UAV observations.

Written and edited by leaders in the fields, this is a must-have resource covering the breadth and value of Remote Sensing.

• Fully up-to-date, this new edition provides a full overview of the field, from theory to applications, curated by world experts
• Includes new information on latest satellite missions, new sensor technology, data fusion algorithms, deep learning data processing and analysis techniques, survey of high-level satellite products, carbon and water cycles, Earth’s energy balance, and various applications with societal benefits
• Serves a wide audience of professionals, from geoscientists and ecologists to policy makers involved in climate science and sustainable development
• Structured chapters, with extensive references and visual representations, help readers navigating the breadth of the topics, and give an in-depth account of current knowledge