Remote Sensing: Advanced Techniques and Platforms

This dual conception of remote sensing brought us to the idea of preparing two different books; in addition to the first book which displays recent advances in remote sensing applications, this book is devoted to new techniques for data processing, sensors and platforms. The first part of the book is devoted to new methodologies and techniques fordata processing in remote sensing. The reader will find interesting contributions inforest characterization, data fusion, surface slopes statistical properties, multichanneland Markovian classification, road feature extraction, miscalibration correction,barometric pressure measurements, wireless sensors networks and lineamentvisualization. The second part of the book gathers chapters related to new sensors andplatforms for remote sensing, including the new COMS satellite, hyperspectral remotesensing, mobile LIDAR for atmospheric remote sensing, SNR improvements inLIDAR, a smart station for data reception, terahertz radiation propagation, HF datatransmission for very remote sensing, hardware image compression, wirelesscommunications for underground sensors, and cold gas propulsion for remote sensingsatellites. Contents Section 1 Analysis Techniques 1 Characterizing Forest Structure by Means of Remote Sensing: A Review 2 Fusion of Optical and Thermal Imagery and LiDAR Data for Application to 3-D Urban Environment and Structure Monitoring 3 Statistical Properties of Surface Slopes via Remote Sensing 4 Classification of Pre-Filtered Multichannel Remote Sensing Images 5 Estimation of the Separable MGMRF Parameters for Thematic Classification 6 Low Rate High Frequency Data Transmission from Very Remote Sensors 7 A Contribution to the Reduction of Radiometric Miscalibration of Pushbroom Sensors 8 Differential Absorption Microwave Radar Measurements for Remote Sensing of Barometric Pressure 9 Energy Efficient Data Acquistion in Wireless Sensor Network 10 Three-Dimensional Lineament Visualization Using Fuzzy B-Spline Algorithm from Multispectral Satellite Data Section 2 Sensors and Platforms 11 COMS, the New Eyes in the Sky for Geostationary Remote Sensing 12 Hyperspectral Remote Sensing - Using Low Flying Aircraft and Small Vessels in Coastal Littoral Areas 13 CSIR - NLC Mobile LIDAR for Atmospheric Remote Sensing 14 Active Remote Sensing: Lidar SNR Improvements 15 Smart Station for Data Reception of the Earth Remote Sensing 16 Atmospheric Propagation of Terahertz Radiation 17 Road Feature Extraction from High Resolution Aerial Images Upon Rural Regions Based on Multi-Resolution Image Analysis and Gabor Filters 18 Hardware Implementation of a Real-Time Image Data Compression for Satellite Remote Sensing 19 Progress Research on Wireless Communication Systems for Underground Mine Sensors 20 Cold Gas Propulsion System - An Ideal Choice for Remote Sensing Small Satellites with TOC BookMarkLinks