Land Observation by Remote Sensing
Subtitle: Theory and Applications (Current Topics in Remote Sensing, Vol 3)
Publisher: CRC
Published: March 7, 1994
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 642
ISBN-13: 9782881249402
Subjects: Agriculture & Farming; Technology & Industrial Arts; Science/Mathematics; Technology / Remote Sensing; Remote Sensing
First sentence: Remote sensing (RS), also called teledetection or earth observation, refers in a general sense to the instrumentation, techniques and methods used to observe (sense) the surface of the earth, usually by the formation of an image (portrait) in a position - stationary or mobile - at a distance remote from that surface.