TY - GEN AU - Lavender, Samantha AU - Lavender, Andrew TI - Practical handbook of remote sensing SN - 9781138582903 U1 - 621.3678 PY - 2018/// CY - London PB - CRC Press KW - N1 - CONTENTS List of Figures xiii List of Tables xix Preface xxi Acknowledgements xxiii Authors xxv List of Symbols xxvii List of Acronyms and Abbreviations xxix 1. What is Remote Sensing? 1 2. How Does Remote Sensing Work? 9 3. Data Available from Remote Sensing 21 4. Basic Remote Sensing Using Landsat Data 31 5. Introduction to Image Processing 47 6.Practical Image Processing 59 7. Geographic Information System and an Introduction to QGIS 79 8. Urban Environments and Their Signatures 95 9.Landscape Evolution 117 10. Inland Waters and the Water Cycle 143 11.Coastal Waters and Coastline Evolution 167 12. Where to Next? 193 Index 205 ER -