PHOTOGRAMMETRIC ENGINEERING & REMOTE SENSING
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a potential savings. Still, having the topics assembled into a
book has a definite utility.
• 3 Advanced algorithms for land use and cover classification
• 7 Seeing residential buildings from remotely sensed
imagery
• 8 Assessment of urbanization patterns and trends in the
Gulf of Mexico region
• 9 Fractional vegetation cover mapping from the HJ-I
small satellite hyperspectral data
• 11 Effects of the spatial pattern of vegetation cover on
urban warming in a desert city
• 12 Remote sensing of algal blooms in inland waters
• 13 Advanced geospatial techniques for mapping and
monitoring invasive species
• 14 Surface deformation mapping with persistent scatterer
radar interferometry
• 15 Mapping marine oil spills from space
ASPRS 2015 Annual Conference
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Given the title of the book I expected detailed discussions of
algorithms. Chapter 2 is quite good in this respect and several
other chapters, such as 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, are substantially focused
on algorithms and are useful. However, land use and land
cover classification, a core function for mapping with remote
sensing, has one chapter dedicated to this topic: “Advanced
algorithms for land use and cover classification” (chapter3)
was a disappointment in its brevity and application. The
chapter gives a combined page and a half to brief discussions
of maximum likelihood and neural networks; the remainder
discusses Support Vector Machines (SVM) and Random Forest
algorithms. The authors of this chapter attempt to draw
general conclusions based on just two data sets, one 307x330
pixels, the other 512x512.
In summary, I find that the book definitely has a place on
my shelf. Based on the range of topics covered, this book will
benefit both students and professionals as an introductory
remote sensing source.
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