Canada Centre for Remote Sensing
Tutorial: Fundamentals of Remote Sensing
Acknowledgements & permission to use
We would like to recognize the contributions made by several
organizations and individuals to this tutorial:
The bulk of the tutorial was prepared by Intermap
Technologies Ltd. of Calgary and Ottawa, under contract to
CCRS and funded through the User Education and Training Initiative
(UETI).
RADARSAT International Inc. and the Canadian Space
Agency provided permission to use much of the satellite imagery
herein.
Several CCRS scientists assisted in reviewing the contents of
the tutorial.
The former CCRS Multimedia Applications Section produced the
various versions, contributing the coding, design, editing,
graphics and quality control of the tutorial.
Permission for Use
This tutorial may be copied in any form and used for
non-commercial purposes provided that: the content
of any copy is not altered and, it is clearly
indicated that the Canada Centre for Remote Sensing is the
originator of this material.
References
The following publications were used in the preparation of this
tutorial:
- Campbell, J.B. (1987) Introduction to Remote
Sensing. The Guilford Press, New York.
- Lillesand, T.M. and Kiefer, R.W. (1994) Remote
Sensing and Image Interpretation. John Wiley and Sons
Inc., New York.
- Jensen, John R. (1986) Introductory Digital Image
Processing. Prentice-Hall, New Jersey.
- Russ, John C. (1995) The Image Processing
Handbook. 2nd edition. CRC Press, Baca Raton.
- Dougherty, Edward R. and Charles R. Giardina (1987)
Matrix Structured Image Processing.
Prentice-Hall, New Jersey.
- Computer Eye: Handbook of Image Processing.
Spatial Data Systems Inc., California.
- Jain, Anil K. (1989) Fundamentals of Digital Image
Processing. Prentice-Hall, New Jersey.
- Wahl, Freidrich M. (1987) Digital Image Signal
Processing. Artech House, Boston.
- Yu, Francis T.S. and Suganda Jutamulia (1992) Optical
Signal Processing, Computing, and Neural Networks. John
Wiley & Sons, New York.
- Canada Centre for Remote Sensing/Natural Resources Canada
(1997). GlobeSAR2 Radar Image Processing and Information
Extraction Workbook Version 1.2. Ottawa, Ontario,
Canada.
- Barton, D. & S. Leonov (eds.) (1997) Radar
technology encyclopedia, 511 p., Artec House, Norwood,
MA, USA, ISBN 0-89006-893-3
- Oliver, C. & S. Quegan (1998) Understanding
synthetic aperture radar images, 479 p., Artech House,
Norwood, MA, USA, ISBN 089006850X.
- Werle D. (1988 and 1992) Radar Remote Sensing - A
Training Manual, 193p, 75 35mm slides, Dendron Resource
Surveys Ltd, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, ISBN 0-9693733-0-9