This book is produced for the increasing number of undergraduate and graduate courses in remote sensing. It aims to provide synthesis of the remote sensing principles that will be of value to environmental scientists with backgrounds in either pure or applied science. It covers basic principles and discusses essential technologies, including aerial photography, satellites, radar, digital imaging, thermal radiation, and much more. The book concentrates upon three themes: first, that of the relationship between properties of our environment and remotely sensed images of our environment. Second, the techniques of acquiring remotely sensed images and third, the procedures of processing and interpreting remotely sensed images in order to locate, identify and study areas of our environment. 

Students from wide range of backgrounds will use the book as a springboard into the remote sensing literature.

• Remote sensing today

• Electromagnetic radiation at the Earth’s surface

• Aerial photography

• Aerial sensor imagery

• Satellite sensor imagery

• Image processing

Paul Curran is President of City, University of London. He joined City in 2010, after having served as Vice-Chancellor at Bournemouth University and Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the University of Southampton, where he is currently a Visiting Professor. He is a former NASA research scientist and advisor to European Space Agency (ESA).  

Professor Sir Paul has received achievement awards from the Royal Geographical Society, Remote Sensing Society, NASA, ESA, and the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing; along with Honorary Doctorates from Grand Ecole ESCP, Paris and Peter the Great University, St. Petersburg, Russia. Her Majesty, The Queen approved the award of the Patron’s Medal of the Royal Geographical Society, for his ‘international development of geographical science’ and he is a Freeman of the City of London. 

Sir Paul was knighted in 2016 New Year Honours for ‘services to higher education’.