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Remote Sensing Tools for Exploration

Observing and Interpreting the Electromagnetic Spectrum

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  • © 2010

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Authors:
  1. Pamela Elizabeth Clark

    1. , Physics Department, Catholic University of America, Greenbelt, USA

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  2. Michael Lee Rilee

    1. Rilee Systems Technologies LLC, Herndon, USA

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  • This book reviews and creates the basis for those experts in one energy region or one system to gain insight in understanding and combining data from other regions and systems
  • The book is clearly organized by spectral region, with discussion of production mechanism, instrumentation, analytical methods, and data interpretation
  • Written in an accessible for engineers and scientists in a wide range of fields
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages 1-12
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  2. An Overview

    • Pamela Elizabeth Clark, Michael Lee Rilee
    Pages 1-28

  3. Principles of Remote Sensing

    • Pamela Elizabeth Clark, Michael Lee Rilee
    Pages 29-52

  4. Visible and Circumvisible Regions and Image Interpretation

    • Pamela Elizabeth Clark, Michael Lee Rilee
    Pages 53-113

  5. Ray Region: X-rays, Alpha Particles, Gamma-rays, Neutrons, UV

    • Pamela Elizabeth Clark, Michael Lee Rilee
    Pages 114-177

  6. Longwave Region: Mid to Thermal Infrared, Microwave, and Radio

    • Pamela Elizabeth Clark, Michael Lee Rilee
    Pages 178-252

  7. Processing Information and Data

    • Pamela Elizabeth Clark, Michael Lee Rilee
    Pages 253-322

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 335-355
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About this book

Remote Sensing from a New Perspective The idea for this book began many years ago, when I was asked to teach a course on remote sensing. Not long before that time, I had been part of the effort to develop the first database for planetary data with a common digital array format and interactive processing capabilities to correlate those data easily: the lunar consortium. All the available lunar remote sensing data were included, orbital and ground-based, ranging across the entire electromagnetic spectrum. I had used this powerful tool extensively, and, in that spirit, I was determined to create a course which covered the entire spectrum and a variety of targets. As I looked around for the equivalent of a textbook, which I was willing to pull together from several sources, I realized that available material was very heavily focused on the visual and near visual spectrum and on the Earth as a target. Even The Surveillant Science, edited by Edward Holz and published in 1973, which broke newground in having diverse articles on most of the spectrum when it was created, focused entirely on the Earth. My personal favorite, the exceedingly well written book on remote sensing by Floyd Sabins first published in 1978, covered the visual, infrared, and microwave portions of the spectrum beautifully but focused on the Earth as well. Unhindered, I developed what I called ‘packets’ of material for each part of the spectrum.

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“Clark (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) and Rilee (Rilee Systems Technologies) have written an engaging, comprehensive book on remote sensing, designed to be accessible to readers in a wide range of fields by minimizing the use of discipline-specific jargon. … text discussing events in Clark’s graduate and professional career that very effectively ground the technical material in human endeavor. The book includes a list of references at the end of each chapter and a very useful index. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals.” (W. Weston, Choice, Vol. 48 (7), March, 2011)

Authors and Affiliations

  • , Physics Department, Catholic University of America, Greenbelt, USA

    Pamela Elizabeth Clark

  • Rilee Systems Technologies LLC, Herndon, USA

    Michael Lee Rilee

About the authors

Pamela Clark grew up in New England and, inspired by President John Kennedy, decided she wanted to explore outer space by the time she was thirteen years old. She obtained her BA from St. Joseph College. While obtaining her PhD in planetary geochemistry from the University of Maryland, she worked at GSFC/NASA outside of Washington DC and the Astrogeology Branch of the USGS in Flagstaff, Arizona, simulating, analyzing, correlating, and interpreting lunar X-ray spectra. She eventually returned Goddard as a member of the XGRS team on the NEAR mission to asteroid Eros. Currently, as a member of the sciences and exploration division at GSFC, Dr. Clark is the science lead in a group to develop new paradigms for the design of space missions and vehicles.

Michael Lee Rilee, Ph.D. is the founder of Rilee Systems Technologies LLC which focuses on advanced computing technologies for autonomous aerospace and robotics applications. Rilee is a plasma physicist and astronomer by training with experience in high performance computing as applied to ground and space-based systems. He was a key researcher in NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's parallel and distributed robotics efforts, including Tetrahedral Robotics.

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