W. Gareth Rees

Thorough and useful reference to principles of remote sensing of Earth; I found the image processing chapter especially good in its concise definition and examples of types of processing and the basics of how they work. Throughout the book the language is very academic, formal and stilted so not as easy to read as it might be. Color plates are relegated to a center section, even though lots of the in-chapter image captions refer to color that is not visible. Earth focus means that some show more topics of interest to planetary scientists are not covered; for that it's good to pair with Michael Shepard's Introduction to Planetary Photometry. show less