Image Analysis, Classification and Change Detection in Remote Sensing, 4th Edition
by Morton John Canty
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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