An Overview of Remote Sensing and Image Processing by Miles Logsdon with thanks to Robin Weeks and Frank Westerlund

What is Remote Sensing? zRemote Sensing is a technology for sampling radiation and force fields to acquire and interpret geospatial data to develop information about features, objects, and classes on Earth's land surface, oceans, and atmosphere (and, where applicable, on the exterior's of other bodies in the solar system). zRemote Sensing is detecting and measuring of electromagnetic energy (usually photons) emanating from distant objects made of various materials, so that we can identify and categorize these object by class or type, substance, and spatial distribution.

Land surface from satellite zFour landsat-5 Thematic Mapper multispectral image mosaic displayed in 4,3,2-RGB (false color) zAugust 2nd and 27th, 1998, 10:15a.m. pst. z16 day repeat, 30m

Ocean Color zSeaWiFs classified ocean color image with unclassified land surface displayed 632-RGB zAugust 16th, 1999 zDaily, 1km

Time series One year of daily AVHRR at 1km of the Amazon Basin

Extra Info

Reflected Light

The “PIXEL”

Wavelength (Bands)

Band Combinations 3,2,1 4,3,2 5,4,3

Resolution and Spectral Mixing

Spectral Mixutre

Spectral Signatures

Spectral Profile

Spatial Profile

Spectral profile surface

Spectral Dimensions

3 band space

Clusters

1d classifier

Unsupervised Classification ISODATA - Iterative Self-Organizing Data Analysis Technique

ISODATA clusters

Supervised Classification

Parametric classifiers

Classification Systems

Classification

Hybrid Classification

Hybrid - “superblocks”

Feature Space

Ground Truth

Classified Product

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