Includes Bibliographical references & appendices

1. Introduction
2. Physical principles
3. Spectra of minerals and rocks
4. Photography
5. Multispectral imaging techniques
6. Important spaceborne missions and multispectral sensors
7. Geometric aspects of photographs and images
8. Digital elevation model
9. Image quality and principles of interpretation
10. Atmospheric corrections
11. Interpretation of solar reflection data
12. Interpretation of thermal-IR data
13. Digital image processing of multispectral data
14. Imaging spectroscopy
15. Microwave sensors
16. Interpretation of SAR imagery
17. SAR interferometry
18. Integrating remote sensing data with other geodata (GIS approach)
19. Geological applications
20. Appendices
21. Brainstorming

For the third edition, this widely acclaimed book has been fully revised, enlarged and updated. It covers remote sensing in a wide range of optical, thermal, and microwave wavelengths and their host of geologic applications featuring sample applications from around the globe. In addition, it presents state-of-the-art content on emerging themes such as atmospheric interactions, spectroscopy, spectral indices, prospectivity modelling, and multi-sensor geodata integration.