
Contents
Preface to the First Edition xi
Preface to the Second Edition xiii
Preface to the Third Edition xv
List of Figures xvii
Program Listings xxiii
1 Images, Arrays, and Matrices 1
1.1 Multispectral satellite images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1.2 Synthetic aperture radar images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
1.3 Algebra of vectors and matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
1.3.1 Elementary properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
1.3.2 Square matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
1.3.3 Singular matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
1.3.4 Symmetric, positive definite matrices . . . . .