Remote Sensing Digital Image Analysis

John Richards has been active in remote sensing teaching and research for the past 40 years, mainly in image analysis and imaging radar. He is the author of four books, all published by Springer.  He is an electrical engineering graduate from the University of New South Wales, Australia, and a life Fellow of the IEEE.   He was the foundation director of the Centre for Remote Sensing at the University of New South Wales in the 1980s and has had a career that has taken him through teaching and research in remote sensing and engineering.  He has also served in senior academic administration including as dean of the College of Engineering and Computer Science and vice-president of the Australian National University.  He is an emeritus professor of both the Australian National University and the University of New South Wales.

• Sources and characteristics of remote sensing image data.- correcting and registering images.- interpreting images.- radiometric enhancement of images.- geometric processing and enhancement: image domain techniques.- spectral domain image transforms.- spatial domain image transforms.- supervised classification techniques.- clustering and unsupervised classification.- Feature Reduction.- Image Classification in Practice.- Multisource Image Analysis.

“This is a complete textbook on remote sensing, enriched and battle hardened by generations of students with engineering, computer science, and mathematics backgrounds. ... the book is very approachable. Its illustrations are well done, and engaging examples and exercises reinforce the key concepts. The magnitude of enticing analogies to technologies in our familiar seismic imaging worlds makes this book fascinating for TLE readers.” (Andreas Rueger, The Leading Edge, Vol. 43 (4), April 24, 2025)