DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING is rapidly gaining applications in various fields of earth resource management, preparation of cadastral maps, biomedical application and other diverse fields of material science, robotics etc. This book deals primarily with analysis of digital images acquired by satellite. The first four chapters of the book deals with concepts of image formation, its characteristics, file formats and the possible softwares for analysis of digital data or images. The next six chapters are devoted to outlining the various processes and techniques as required to undertake the analysis of digital satellite data in generally. The book has been written with the sole aim to provide a simple understanding to the various concepts of image processing to beginners in this area.

• The novelty of this book is • A comprehensive treatise on file formats that may be used to store an image • A detailed discussion on some of the leading image processing softwares • Explanation of the various process and techniques using a sample satellite data set

Preface / Acknowledgement / List of Figures / List of Tables / Concept of Images / The Process of Imaging / Image File Format / Image Processing Software / Initial Statistics / Pre-Processing of Data / Enhancement Techniques / Image Transformations / Image Classification / Spatial Filtering / References / Index / About the Author.

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