Processing Digital Images in GIS: A Tutorial Featuring ArcView and ARC/INFO
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| Rating | : | 4.47 (746 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1566901359 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 400 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-10-13 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Good primer on images in GIS The topics covered (panchromatic and color display,3-dimension images, hypsometric coloring, shaded relief,arcscan, introduction to remote sensing, map projection,map coordinates, image rectification, image classification,classification accuracy assessment, grid operations, etc.)were easy to understand. I found the chapter on scanningconsiderations especially useful. Tips on documentationfiles and creating image-based slide shows were good ideas.The only major complaint I have is that the tutorial part isold-fashioned text based commands rather than a menu. A Customer said A good Arc-image primer. The book covers lots of ground scanning density, grayscale versus binary versus color tradeoffs, getting scans to real-world coordinates, image enhancement, digital elevation models, image rectification, raster editing, etc.Finally, I now understand exactly what is going on in the image rectification process!I liked the idea of documentation filestips like that have saved my butt many times. A Customer said Poor. I thought this book would help in the understanding of grid images and processing dem. Well, I was wrong. It does have some helpful hints, however, the book if full of errors includiong spelling and commad line errors. Either the editor did a poor job or the writer was not very into it when compiling this book. If you want the basic understanding of processing digital images this is a good book. However, I do not recomend this book do to the ammount of errors in it. I found missing steps, and inaccuracies in the processes.
The book?s practical, hands-on approach facilitates rapid learning of how to process remotely sensed images, digital orthophotos, digital elevation models, and scanned maps, and how to integrate them with points, lines, and polygon themes. It begins with an introduction to image display, scanned maps, and remotely sensed imagery. This book is a tutorial that will enable readers to become proficient with the use of image data in projects using geographical information systems (GIS). Subsequent chapters focus on transforming pixel coordinates to real-world coordinates, image classification, classification accuracy assessment, and grid operations. The companion CD-ROM includes files, images, and data sets employed in exercises throughout the book.