This fourth and full colour edition updates and expands a widely-used textbook aimed at advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students taking courses in remote sensing and GIS in Geography, Geology and Earth/Environmental Science departments. Existing material has been brought up to date and new material has been added. In particular, a new chapter, exploring the two-way links between remote sensing and environmental GIS, has been added. New and updated material includes: A website at wiley.com/go/mather4 that provides access to an updated and expanded version of the MIPS image processing software for Microsoft Windows, PowerPoint slideshows of the figures from each chapter, and case studies, including full data sets, Includes new chapter on Remote Sensing and Environmental GIS that provides insights into the ways in which remotely-sensed data can be used synergistically with other spatial data sets, including hydrogeological and archaeological applications, New section on image processing from a computer science perspective presented in a non-technical way, including some remarks on statistics, New material on image transforms, including the analysis of temporal change and data fusion techniques, New material on image classification including decision trees, support vector machines and independent components analysis, and Now in full colour throughout. This book provides the material required for a single semester course in Environmental Remote Sensing plus additional, more advanced, reading for students specialising in some aspect of the subject. It is written largely in non-technical language yet it provides insights into more advanced topics that some may consider too difficult for a non-mathematician to understand. The case studies available from the website are fully-documented research projects complete with original data sets. For readers who do not have access to commercial image processing software, MIPS provides a licence-free, intuitive and comprehensive alternative.

This fourth and full colour edition updates and expands awidely-used textbook aimed at advanced undergraduate andpostgraduate students taking courses in remote sensing and GIS inGeography, Geology and Earth/Environmental Science departments.Existing material has been brought up to date and new material hasbeen added. In particular, a new chapter, exploring the two-waylinks between remote sensing and environmental GIS, has been added.New and updated material includes:* A website at href="wiley.com/go/mather4">wiley.com/go/mather4that provides access to an updated and expanded version of the MIPSimage processing software for Microsoft Windows, PowerPointslideshows of the figures from each chapter, and case studiesincluding full data sets* Includes new chapter on Remote Sensing and Environmental GISthat provides insights into the ways in which remotely-sensed datacan be used synergistically with other spatial data sets, includinghydrogeological and archaeological applications* New section on image processing from a computer scienceperspective presented in a non-technical way, including someremarks on statistics* New material on image transforms, including the analysis oftemporal change and data fusion techniques* New material on image classification including decision treessupport vector machines and independent components analysisand* Now in full colour throughout.This book provides the material required for a single semestercourse in Environmental Remote Sensing plus additional, moreadvanced, reading for students specialising in some aspect of thesubject. It is written largely in non-technical language yet itprovides insights into more advanced topics that some may considertoo difficult for a non-mathematician to understand. The casestudies available from the website are fully-documented researchprojects complete with original data sets. For readers who do nothave access to commercial image processing software, MIPS providesa licence-free, intuitive and comprehensive alternative.