Remote Sensing The Image Chain Approach

REMOTE SENSING 2ND EDITION This page intentionally left blank REMOTE SENSING THE IMAGE CHAIN APPROACH 2ND EDITION JOHN R. SCHOTT ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 2007 OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Oxford University Press, Inc., publishes works that further Oxford University's objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education. Oxford New York Auckland Cape Town Dar es Salaam Hong Kong Karachi Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Nairobi New Delhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto With offices in Argentina Austria Brazil Chile Czech Republic France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Portugal Singapore South Korea Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam Copyright © 2007 by Oxford University Press, Inc. Published by Oxford University Press, Inc. 198 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10016 www.oup.com Oxford is a registered trademark of Oxford University Press All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of Oxford University Press. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Schott, John R. (John Robert), 1951Remote sensing : the image chain approach / John R. Schott. — 2nd ed. p. cm. Includes index. ISBN: 978-0-19-517817-3 1. Remote sensing. I. Title. G70.4.S36 2006 621.36'78—dc22 2006022714 987654321 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper Dedicated with love and respect to Pam, Stephen, Jesse, and Jack This page intentionally left blank PREFACE I'm back at Wyldewood again almost exactly 10 years after I wrote the preface to the first edition. Much has changed. The reader familiar with the first edition will see this reflected in th