Kass Green, Russell G. Congalton, Mark Tukman

Imagery and GIS (eBook, ePUB)

Best Practices for Extracting Information from Imagery

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Imagery and GIS, working together, expand our perspective so that we can better perceive and understand The Science of Where(TM).

Today, most maps include imagery in the form of aerial photos, satellite images, thermal images, digital elevation models, and scanned maps. Imagery and GIS: Best Practices for Extracting Information from Imagery shows how imagery can be integrated successfully into GIS maps and analysis. In this essential reference, discover how imagery brings value to GIS and how GIS can be used to derive value from imagery. Learn from case studies and in-depth explanations about selecting the 'right' imagery, image analysis, how to efficiently manage and serve imagery datasets, and how to accurately extract information from imagery. The authors' experience working together on numerous research, teaching, and operational remote sensing and GIS applications bestow the book with both the newest innovations, as well as proven advice.

Apply the best practices found in Imagery and GIS: Best Practices for Extracting Information from Imagery to obtain the most value from imagery in your own GIS projects.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Esri Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781589484894
• Artikelnr.: 49585106

Autorenporträt

Kass Green's more than 30-year career in remote sensing and GIS spans innovative research, multiscale and multisensor mapping projects, strategic planning, policy analysis, and the development of decision support tools for NGO's, public agencies and private companies throughout the world.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction to imagery
Chapter 2 Thinking about imagery
Chapter 3 Imagery fundamentals
Chapter 4 Choosing and accessing the right imagery
Chapter 5 Working with imagery
Chapter 6 Imagery processing: Controlling unwanted variation in the imagery
Chapter 7 Understanding variation on the ground
Chapter 8 Tools for linking variation in the imagery to variation on the
ground
Chapter 9 Image analysis
Chapter 10 Change detection
Chapter 11 Accuracy assessment
Chapter 12 Publishing and serving imagery
Chapter 13 Final considerations and conclusions
Glossary
Index