Not enough content to warrant the high price

This updated edition of the digital image processing text geared towards satellite-derived remotely sensed data has some good content, but like previous editions it is much too expensive for what you ultimately receive. For general digital image processing and its algorithms I really think that "Digital Image Processing" by Gonzalez and Woods provides much more quality for a lower price. Granted, this book has some GIS specific information in it that other books don't have, but I don't think that this warrants the huge price tag. The presentation is not particularly compelling either. Quite a bit of room is taken up with large tables and sample imagery rather than instruction and algorithm details. I would really suggest that someone interested in the specific problems of processing satellite imagery look at some of the online resources for the pre-processing issues unique to this field, and then look at the Gonzalez and Woods book for a much better explanation of digital image processing in general, including the pattern recognition issues of the later chapters of this book that I think are particularly poorly explained. The table of contents is as follows:

1. Remote Sensing and Digital Image Processing
2. Remote Sensing Data Collection
3. Digital Image Processing Hardware and Software Considerations
4. Image Quality Assessment and Statistical Evaluation
5. Initial Display Alternatives and Scientific Visualization
6. Electromagnetic Radiation Principles and Radiometric Correction
7. Geometric Correction
8. Image Enhancement
9. Thematic Information Extraction: Pattern Recognition
10. Information Extraction Using Artificial Intelligence
11. Thematic Information Extraction: Hyperspectral Image Analysis
12. Digital Change Detection
13. Thematic Map Accuracy Assessment

Other Reviews

• This was not an original copy of the book
• Nicely Balanced Presentation of a Broad, Complex Topic
• Not enough content to warrant the high price