Fundamentals of Satellite Remote Sensing: An Environmental Approach, Third Edition

ISBN-13: 9781138583832 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 416 str.

Emilio Chuvieco

Opis

Satellite Earth Observation is a very dynamic field as it is based in sensors, satellite missions, and computer resources, which means that the application areas are continuously evolving and delevoping rapidly. This third edition will cover the most recent advances incorporated since the publication of the previous edition.

O autorze

Emilio Chuvieco is a Professor of Geography and director of the Environmental Ethics chair at the University of Alcalá, Spain, where he coordinates the Master program in Geographic Information Technologies, and leads the "Environmental Remote Sensing Research Group". Visiting professor at the U.C. Berkeley and Santa Barbara, the Canadian Remote Sensing Center and the University of Maryland. He has given short post-graduate courses en 21 countries. Advisor of 35 Ph.D. dissertations. Principal investigator of 30 research projects and 22 contracts. Author of 29 books and 344 scientific papers and book chapters, 141 of which are indexed in Scopus. Former president of the Spanish Remote Sensing Society and the Geographic Information Technologies group of the Association of Spanish Geographers. Corresponding member of the Spanish Academy of Sciences since 2004. He is the science leader of the Fire Disturbance project within the European Space Agency’s Climate Change Initiative Program. Co-editor in Chief of Remote Sensing of Environment.