Pamela Elizabeth Clark, Michael Lee Rilee

Remote Sensing Tools for Exploration (eBook, PDF)

Observing and Interpreting the Electromagnetic Spectrum

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book is intended to cover remote sensing as a process applied to solar system exploration, with emphasis on understanding and utilizing the entire electromagnetic spectrum. The goal is to create a common ground for those individuals and groups involved in every aspect of remote sensing, representing a wide range of science, engineering, and management disciplines. Despite their varying viewpoints and jargons, these scientist, engineers, and mission administrators nevertheless share the common goal of bringing remote sensing instruments, missions, and programs to fruition. The fostering of great understanding and appreciation of essential aspects of remote sensing brought to the table from each discipline will generate improved communication and working relationships to facilitate succesful future exploration. Introductory chapters describe preliminary planning and support systems as well as general principles of remote sensing and electromagnetic energy interactions. The body ofthe book covers energy generation, instrumentation, measurements, and their interpretation for major divisions of the electromagnetic spectrum, including the visible and circumvisible, ray, and long wave regions. Processing and fusion of remote sensing data in its many forms, as well as emerging technologies for data processing and delivery, are discussed in the final chapters.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer US
• Seitenzahl: 346
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781441968302
• Artikelnr.: 37356703

Autorenporträt

Pamela Clark grew up in New England and, inspired by President John Kennedy, decided she wanted to explore outer space by the time she was thirteen years old. She obtained her BA from St. Joseph College. While obtaining her PhD in planetary geochemistry from the University of Maryland, she worked at GSFC/NASA outside of Washington DC and the Astrogeology Branch of the USGS in Flagstaff, Arizona, simulating, analyzing, correlating, and interpreting lunar X-ray spectra. She eventually returned Goddard as a member of the XGRS team on the NEAR mission to asteroid Eros. Currently, as a member of the sciences and exploration division at GSFC, Dr. Clark is the science lead in a group to develop new paradigms for the design of space missions and vehicles.

Michael Lee Rilee, Ph.D. is the founder of Rilee Systems Technologies LLC which focuses on advanced computing technologies for autonomous aerospace and robotics applications. Rilee is a plasma physicist and astronomer by training with experience in high performance computing as applied to ground and space-based systems. He was a key researcher in NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's parallel and distributed robotics efforts, including Tetrahedral Robotics.

Inhaltsangabe

An Overview.- Principles of Remote Sensing.- Visible and Circumvisible Regions and Image Interpretation.- Ray Region: X-rays, Alpha Particles, Gamma-rays, Neutrons, UV.- Longwave Region: Mid to Thermal Infrared, Microwave, and Radio.- Processing Information and Data.

Rezensionen

From the reviews:
"Clark (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) and Rilee (Rilee Systems Technologies) have written an engaging, comprehensive book on remote sensing, designed to be accessible to readers in a wide range of fields by minimizing the use of discipline-specific jargon. ... text discussing events in Clark's graduate and professional career that very effectively ground the technical material in human endeavor. The book includes a list of references at the end of each chapter and a very useful index. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals." (W. Weston, Choice, Vol. 48 (7), March, 2011)