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Textbook Description

As of 31 December 2023, 2258 copies have been sold (1019 paperbacks and 1239 eBooks). Between April 2020 and Dec 2022, 53 colleges/universities had adopted the textbook.

Overview

"Remote Sensing Principles, Interpretation, and Applications, 4th ed." by F.F. Sabins and J.M. Ellis was published in April 2020 by Waveland Press (see description at link below)http://waveland.com/browse.php?t=421 The 4th edition includes 6 new chapters (Drones and Manned Aircraft Imaging, DEMs and Lidar, GIS, Renewable Resources, Climate Change, and Archeology). Free downloadable supplemental resources that include remote sensing examples shown and discussed in the textbook are available at the publisher’s website (http://www.waveland.com/Sabins-Ellis/) to facilitate learning how to process remote sensing images and DEMS. Twelve (12) YouTube Tutorial videos for image processing with desktop ArcGIS Pro are also available online. Instructor material (textbook answer sheets, lab manual answers, processing examples, and editable Microsoft .docx files) is available at the publisher's textbook webpage for those instructors who adopt the textbook for their course. A cost-effective way to evaluate the textbook is to consider Amazon's 30-day rent of the Kindle eBook version for U.S.$17.46. An eBook version is also available for rent or purchase at Vitalsource, Google Books, and Chegg. Printed textbooks are available at the publisher's website.

Chapters and Figures

The first 10 chapters discuss principles and technologies. Chapters 11 - 17 cover a variety of applications. The chapters highlighted in orange to the right are new to the 4th Edition. The textbook provides over 500 figures, printed color plates, and online digital color images. Click-on the figure to the right to see full resolution.
A few pages and color plates from different chapters are provided below to demonstrate the textbook's style and scope.
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A Course Sequence

A proposed sequence for integrating the textbook, lab manual, and digital database into a semester-long course that includes lectures, labs, and student projects is shown to the right. The instructor may choose to cover only one or two application chapters when the course is constrained by a short semester or to assign application chapters to students to support class presentations. Chapter 9 (Digital Image Processing), Chapter 10 (Geographic Information Systems), and Chapter 14 (Land Use/Land Cover) can be integrated into a lab schedule. Toward the end of the semester the database can be used to help students jump-start and support special projects. Click-on the figure to the right to see full resolution.