High Spatial Resolution Remote Sensing

Imagery captured at very fine scale, whether by satellites, crewed aircraft, or unmanned aerial vehicles (drones), opens new ways to study environmental change in unprecedented detail. This volume explores how such data can be put to work. It asks three central questions: what obstacles arise when new sensors and new platforms come into use, which advanced techniques can pull precise information out of high-resolution images, and how this imagery can sharpen the measurement and description of natural and human-driven patterns and processes.

The contributions present a current picture of the field, covering how high-resolution images are gathered, prepared before analysis, processed, and applied. Its stated purpose is to serve as a reference point for researchers working with high spatial resolution remote sensing and to encourage further work on the scientific and technical problems that remain.