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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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This work details the historical, conceptual, and practical uses of remote sensing in fields such as agriculture, forestry, urban planning, and military intelligence. It outlines the characteristics of remote sensing data and confronts challenges of interpreting, managing, and storing the data, using real-world examples illustrated with color images on every page. The book can be used by new and experienced GIS managers, professionals, and students. Aronoff is the author of the classic and still widely used GIS text Geographic Information Systems: A Management Perspective and coauthor of the award-winning book Total Workplace Performance: Rethinking the Office Environment. The book is distributed in the US by the Independent Publishers Group. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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