REMOTE SENSING OF LANDSCAPES WITH SPECTRAL IMAGES

By ELIZABETH SANCHEZ

CONTENTS EXTRACTING INFORMATION FROM SPECTRAL IMAGES INTRODUCTION FIELD STUDIES AND SPECTRAL IMAGES PHOTO INTERPRETATION OF SPECTRAL IMAGES SPECTRAL ANALYSIS OF IMAGES TESTING AND VALIDATING RESULTS SUMMARY STEPS FOR EXTRACTING INFORMATION SPECTROSCOPY OF LANDSCAPES BASICS OF SPECTROSCOPY FOR FIELD INVESTIGATORS SPECTROSCOPY AT LANDSCAPE SCALES SPECTROSCOPY APPLIED TO IMAGES STANDARD METHODS FOR ANALYZING SPECTRAL IMAGES INITIAL EVALUATION CALIBRATION ENHANCEMENT FOR PHOTO INTERPRETATION DATA RECONNAISSANCE AND ORGANIZATION PHYSICAL MODELING WITH SPECTRAL DATA SPECTRAL-MIXTURE ANALYSIS ENDMEMBERS, FRACTIONS, AND RESIDUALS SHADE FRACTION IMAGES FINDING ENDMEMBERS CALIBRATION FEEDBACK NONLINEAR MIXING THERMAL-INFRARED IMAGES FRACTION IMAGES OF LANDSCAPES WHAT TO DO WITH FRACTION IMAGES CLASSIFICATION USING ENDMEMBER FRACTIONS TARGET DETECTION SPECTRAL CONTRAST AND TARGET DETECTION DETECTION LIMITS SPECTRAL CONTRAST AND SPATIAL SCALE THEMATIC MAPPING OF LANDSCAPES FIELD MAPS AND IMAGE-DERIVED MAPS THEMATIC MAPPING WITH SPECTRAL IMAGES PROCESSES AND CHANGE PROCESS PATHWAYS IN SPECTRAL IMAGES REFERENCE PATHWAYS MAPPING CHANGES IN LANDSCAPES