4 Basic Remote Sensing Using Landsat Data
The next four chapters will introduce the knowledge and techniques for handling, processing, and analyzing remotely sensed data. They will provide a background to image processing theory and a step-by-step guide to applying basic remote sensing techniques.
They’ll also give details on obtaining free software and freely available remote sensing data. We will concentrate on using data from the Landsat and Sentinel missions as the demonstration data sets for this introduction, as they are easily accessible through the Internet and free of charge to use.
This chapter introduces Landsat and the concepts of finding, downloading, and viewing that source of remotely sensing data. ...
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