GNR 607 - Satellite Image Processing

Concept of a digital image, Methods of acquisition of digital images from conventional and space-borne scanners, Distortions in Space-borne Digital images and Restoration, Matching and Registration of satellite images, Digital Image Enhancement through Point Operations, Neighbourhood Operations on Satellite Images, Image Transforms ? Fourier, Wavelet, Hough, Colour and PCT ArithmeticOperations, Digital Image Analysis Through Supervised and Unsupervised Classification, Post-classification Analysis ? statistical accuracy estimation.


  • Text / References:
  • P.M. Mather, Digital Image Processing of Remotely sensed Images, Wiley,2004.
  • John R. Jensen, Digital Image processing: A Remote Sensing Perspective,Prentice-Hall, 2004.
  • David L. Verbyla, Satellite Remote Sensing of Natural Resources, CRC Press,1995.
  • John Campbell, Introduction to Remote Sensing, McGraw Hill, 1996.
  • R. C. Gonzalez, J. W. woods, Digital Image Processing, Prentice-Hall,2002.
  • George Joseph, Principles of Remote Sensing, Universities Press,2003.