This guide to remote sensing technology presents GIS managers who have no previous remote sensing experience with the basics of integrating it with GIS data. How to use remote sensing technology as geographic data is demonstrated, as is how remote sensing products are the perfect complement to GIS-based analysis in industries such as emergency response, meteorology, water resources, land use, and urban planning. Managers are guided through the evolution of remote sensing technology and shown the approaches that different organizations have successfully used to incorporate remote sensing data into their work. Information on remote sensing history, characteristics, sensors, image products, and practical applications of remote sensing data is also included.
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Stan Aronoff is the author of the classic Geographic Information Systems: A Management Perspective and coauthor of the award-winning book Total Workplace Performance: Rethinking the Office Environment. His career has included the development of software and procedures for integrated analysis of remotely sensed and GIS data. He lives in Ottawa, Ontario.
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The uses and applications of GIS,
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Remote sensing technology is changing not just government pursuits, but our daily lives - and REMOTE SENSING FOR GIS MANAGERS surveys the uses and applications of GIS using color images and illustrations to explore such diverse fields as agriculture, business, urban planning and more. Little prior information is assumed here: chapters start with the basics such as the characteristics of GIS data and moves to more advanced topics on managing and storing such data. From digital and video cameras to wavelength processing and active sensors, REMOTE SENSING FOR GIS MANAGERS is easy to access, yet packed with technical information. Very highly recommended.
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Not technically oriented, this shows the what not the how,
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Much of the information put into GIS systems presents a view from overhead. This obviously lends itself to generating that data from overhead imagery collected by airplane or satellite. This book presents a good introduction of collecting and more important, using this kind of data.As you might guess from the title, the book is aimed at the manager who is trying to get information from the GIS system/department. About half the book is on the sensors and sensor platforms. This includes not only sensors that operate in visible light, but also light in other frequencies such as infrared, and active sensors such as sonar, radar and lidar. Chapter 12 is on the applicatiosn of remote sensing within the specific firlds of agriculture, forestry, geology, meteorology, oceanography, climatology, archaeology, military and other areas including business intelligence. Being a businessman, I was surprised at the infomation available from imagry. There is an overhead picture of a container port. Over time it shows that the loading/unloading cranes haven't moved and that a line of containers has been shown in photographs for some months. Perhaps this is an indication of deteriorating business conditions. Other images show new production buildings being built in an industrial plant indicating improving conditions. Most of the book is by Stan Aronoff, but he has called on other experts for selected chapters. Fascinating book.
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This book is incredibly readable even for someone just getting started in GIS managing. Visual stunning pictures and enlightening figures dot every single page. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in the science and practice of GIS management.
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People have always viewed the world from vantage points high above the landscape to better assess their surroundings. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Natural Resources Canada, New York, World War, Geological Survey, Soviet Union, Thematic Mapper, Forest Service, National Geophysical Data Center, North America, European Space Agency, Intermap Technologies, National Park Service, Johns County, Image Corporation, Los Angeles, Stan Aronoff, Leica Geosystems, Rating Level, Source Remote, Statistics Canada, Upper Saddle River, American Society of Photogrammetry, Canadian Space Agency, Earthdata Holdings New!
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- Remote Sensing: Symposium Proceedings by G. K. C. Pardoe on 5 pages
- Remote Sensing (Survey report) by Richrd R. Miller on page 331, and page 362
- Landscape Ecology by Richard T. T. Forman on page 362
- Natural Resources: Genetic Diversity-Platinum and the Platinum Group Metals by Mark S. Coyne on page 320
- Geographic Information Systems: A Management Perspective by Stan Aronoff in Front Matter
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