Publications

Overview

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the TerrSet^®/IDRISI^® remote sensing software package. With clear instructions and more than 300 color illustrations, the text is ideal for students and professionals seeking a hands-on and guided exploration of the fundamental issues in remote sensing and image processing.

Outline

- Introduction
- Displaying remotely sensed data
- Importing, pre-processing and
exporting image
- Enhancing images spatially
- Image ratios
- Spectral enhancement techniques
- Introduction to classifying multispectral images
- Supervised classification
- Soft classification
- Classification error assessment
- Image change analysis

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the IDRISI^® remote sensing software package. With clear instructions and color illustrations, the book is ideal for students and professionals seeking a hands-on and guided exploration of the fundamental issues in remote sensing and image processing.

This book comprises 4 main sections. Section 1 presents night-time images of the Pearl River Delta region, and Hong Kong & its environs. Section 2 contains images of 15 m resolution acquired by Landsat-7 satellite. Section 3 includes photos of 2 m resolution obtained by the Corona satellite. Section 4 features colour images of 60 cm resolution taken by the QuickBird satellite. These images were collected in the period 1969 – 2008. They show the spectacular changes in the Pearl River Delta region over the past 39 years.

This book comprises spectacular images of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region acquired by Landsat-5, Landsat-7. SPOT-5, and QuickBird satellites on different dates. In addition, a black and white photo collected by Corona satellite in 1969 is included. When it is compared with a Landsat image acquired in 2003, the changes in Victoria Harbour over that period are shown vividly.