Remote
Sensing is a revolutionary new tool that lends itself to useful applications in a variety
of areas of high relevance to every country in the world. The civilian application areas
include agriculture, forestry, fishing, oceans, the study of biodiversity, monitoring
urban growth, mapping of wastelands and mapping water resources.
These and other applications of remote sensing of enduring importance, especially to
developing countries, have been explained in a very simple easy - to- understand language
suitable to the student community and to the general public, in this compilation of a
series of articles written over a period of six years by the author a leading expert in
remote sensing.
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