REMOTE SENSING: THE IMAGE CHAIN APPROACH
SECTION I SATELLITES AND SENSORS FROM DIFFERENT ERAS AND THEIR CHARACTERISTICS 1 REMOTE SENSING SYSTEMS—PLATFORMS AND SENSORS: AERIAL, SATELLITE, UAV, OPTICAL, RADAR, AND LIDAR SECTION II FUNDAMENTALS OF REMOTE SENSING: EVOLUTION, STATE OF THE ART, AND FUTURE POSSIBILITIES 2 FUNDAMENTALS OF REMOTE SENSING FOR TERRESTRIAL APPLICATIONS: EVOLUTION, CURRENT STATE OF THE ART, AND FUTURE POSSIBILITIES SECTION III REMOTE SENSING DATA NORMALIZATION, HARMONIZATION, AND INTERSENSOR CALIBRATION 3 OVERVIEW OF SATELLITE IMAGE RADIOMETRY IN THE SOLAR-REFLECTIVE OPTICAL DOMAIN 4 POSTLAUNCH RADIOMETRIC CALIBRATION OF SATELLITE-BASED OPTICAL SENSORS WITH EMPHASIS ON TERRESTRIAL REFERENCE STANDARD SITES 5 REMOTE SENSING DATA NORMALIZATION 6 SATELLITE DATA DEGRADATIONS AND THEIR IMPACTS ON HIGH-LEVEL PRODUCTS CONTENTS SECTION IV VEGETATION INDEX STANDARDIZATION AND CROSS-CALIBRATION OF DATA FROM MULTIPLE SENSORS 7 INTER- AND INTRASENSOR SPECTRAL COMPATIBILITY AND CALIBRATION OF THE ENHANCED VEGETATION INDICES 8 TOWARD STANDARDIZATION OF VEGETATION INDICES SECTION V IMAGE PROCESSING METHODS AND APPROACHES 9 DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING: A REVIEW OF THE FUNDAMENTAL METHODS AND TECHNIQUES 10 URBAN IMAGE CLASSIFICATION: PER-PIXEL CLASSIFIERS, SUBPIXEL ANALYSIS, OBJECT-BASED IMAGE ANALYSIS, AND GEOSPATIAL METHODS 11 IMAGE CLASSIFICATION METHODS IN LAND COVER AND LAND USE 12 HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE PROCESSING: METHODS AND APPROACHES 13 THERMAL INFRARED REMOTE SENSING: PRINCIPLES AND THEORETICAL BACKGROUND 14 OBJECT-BASED IMAGE ANALYSIS: EVOLUTION, HISTORY, STATE OF THE ART, AND FUTURE VISION T 15 GEOSPATIAL DATA INTEGRATION IN OBIA: IMPLICATIONS OF ACCURACY AND VALIDITY 16 IMAGE SEGMENTATION ALGORITHMS FOR LAND CATEGORIZATION 17 LIDAR DATA PROCESSING AND APPLICATIONS SECTION VI CHANGE DETECTION 18 CHANGE DETECTION TECHNIQUES USING MULTISENSOR DATA SECTION VII INTEGRATING GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS (GIS) AND REMOTE SENSING IN SPATIAL MODELING FRAMEWORK FOR DECISION SUPPORT 19 GEOPROCESSING, WORKFLOWS, AND PROVENANCE 20 TOWARD DEMOCRATIZATION OF GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION: GIS, REMOTE SENSING, AND GNSS APPLICATIONS IN EVERYDAY LIFE 21 FRONTIERS OF GISCIENCE: EVOLUTION, STATE OF THE ART, AND FUTURE PATHWAYS 22 OBJECT-BASED REGIONALIZATION FOR POLICY-ORIENTED PARTITIONING OF SPACE SECTION VIII GLOBAL NAVIGATION SATELLITE SYSTEMS (GNSS) REMOTE SENSING 23 GLOBAL NAVIGATION SATELLITE SYSTEMS THEORY AND PRACTICE: EVOLUTION, STATE OF THE ART, AND FUTURE PATHWAYS 24 GLOBAL NAVIGATION SATELLITE SYSTEM REFLECTOMETRY FOR OCEAN AND LAND APPLICATIONS 25 GLOBAL NAVIGATION SATELLITE SYSTEMS FOR WIDE ARRAY OF TERRESTRIAL APPLICATIONS SECTION IX CROWDSOURCING AND REMOTE SENSING DATA 26 CROWDSOURCING AND REMOTE SENSING: COMBINING TWO VIEWS OF PLANET EARTH SECTION X CLOUD COMPUTING AND REMOTE SENSING 27 PROCESSING REMOTE-SENSING DATA IN CLOUD COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS SECTION XI GOOGLE EARTH FOR REMOTE SENSING 28 GOOGLE EARTH FOR REMOTE SENSING SECTION XII ACCURACIES, ERRORS, AND UNCERTAINTIES OF REMOTE SENSING–DERIVED PRODUCTS 29 ASSESSING POSITIONAL AND THEMATIC ACCURACIES OF MAPS GENERATED FROM REMOTELY SENSED DATA SECTION XIII SPACE LAW AND REMOTE SENSING 30 REMOTE SENSING LAW: AN OVERVIEW OF ITS DEVELOPMENT AND ITS TRAJECTORY IN THE GLOBAL CONTEXT SECTION XIV SUMMARY 31 REMOTE SENSING DATA CHARACTERIZATION, CLASSIFICATION, AND ACCURACIES: ADVANCES OF THE LAST 50 YEARS AND A VISION FOR THE FUTURE