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Image Analysis, Classification and Change Detection in Remote Sensing, 4th Edition
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Image Analysis, Classification and Change Detection in Remote Sensing, 4th Edition

by Morton John Canty
March 2019
Intermediate to advanced
530 pages
12h 13m
English
CRC Press
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Preface to the Third Edition

A main incentive for me to write a third edition of this book stemmed from my increasing enthusiasm for the Python programming language. I began to see the advantage of illustrating the many image processing algorithms covered in earlier editions of the text not only in the powerful and convenient, but not inexpensive, ENVI/IDL world, but also on a widely available open source platform. Python, together with the NumPy and Scipy packages, can hold its own with any commercial array processing software system. Furthermore, the Geospatial Data Abstraction Library (GDAL) and its Python wrappers allow for great versatility and convenience in reading, writing and manipulating different image formats. This was enough to ...

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ISBN: 9780429875342