8 Urban Environments and Their Signatures

DOI: 10.1201/9781003272274-8

8.1 Introduction to Application Chapters of the Book

This chapter is the first in the second half of the book, which focuses on applications, providing an introduction to urban, landscape, inland water, coastal, and atmospheric remote sensing. It gives an insight into what’s possible, although, within this book, we can only scratch the surface of the applications. Chapter 13 will describe where you can go to find more information and progress to the next stage of your learning.

Each of these chapters will be organized in the same way; that is, they’ll start with an introduction to the area, followed by the remote sensing theory, then the individual applications, and we ...

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