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Alien Vision: Exploring the Electromagnetic Spectrum with Imaging Technology (SPIE Press Monograph Vol. PM104)

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The book disappointed me at first, a little, because I thought I was getting something more of physics, more mathematical, like a high school study book. But as it turned out, it is quite fascinating and pretty! The images taken there are so beautiful, it will not disappoint anyone even if they're into plane physics and not images. I recommend it to everyone who likes physics and light!

Austin is one the foremost scientists in the exciting field of electronic imaging. It was my pleasure to review this book when I was an editor in chief for a trade pub several years back and it is one of my favorites. It is not a tech heavy book, rather well written and a favorite in my personal library. Buy it and you will learn so much and get in on a growing field of applications that now includes ultraviolet imaging in Austin's vast knowledge of emerging photonic and electronic imaging.

The real life effects of Thermal Images and Electromagnetic Spectrum Imaging by Dr. Richards is the best-kept secret. The amount color images and the current technology are incredible.

This is one you will not be able to put down.

This book was fabulous talking about everything from sonar images to MRI. The author did a fantastic job of taking a complex subject and reducing it into many smaller concepts that were memorable and interesting. The book does a great job of helping one understand what and where everything falls in the electromagnetic spectrum...and what doesn't. The examples are excellent. At the end and for the first time for me personally, there is this feeling that perhaps we have not seen all the types of imaging yet to come.

~ Tracy