
Preface
The rapid rate at which the field of digital picture processing has grown
in the past five years has necessitated extensive revisions and the intro-
duction of topics not found in the original edition.
Two new chapters have been added: Chapter 8 (by A. C. K.) on recon-
struction from projections and Chapter 9 (by A. R.) on matching. The
latter includes material from Chapters 6 and 8 of the first edition on geo-
metric transformations and matching, but it consists primarily of new ma-
terial on imaging geometry, rectification, and stereomapping, as well as an
appendix on the analysis of time-varying imagery.
Chapter 2 incorporates a new