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Contents Preface 1 An Introduction to Remote Sensing 2 Sensors and Instruments 3 Satellite Systems 4 Data Reception Archiving and Distribution 5 Lasers and Active Aircraft Remote Sensing Systems 6 Ground Wave and Sky Wave Radar Techniques 7 Active Microwave Instruments IndexRemote sensing may be taken to mean the observation of or gathering information about a target by a device separated from it by some distance The expression remote sensing was coined by geographers at the US Office of Naval Research in the 1960s at about the time that the use of spy satellites was beginning to move out of the military sphere and into the civilian sphere Remote sensing is often regarded as being synonymous with the use of artificial satellites and in this regard one may call to mind glossy calendars and coffee-table books of LANDSAT images of various parts of the Earth of the satellite images that are frequently shown on television weather forecasts Satellites do play an important role in remote sensing but it should be appreciated that remote sensing activity not only precedes the expression but dates from long before the launch of the first artificial satellite There are a number of ways of gathering remotely sensed data which do not involve satellites and which indeed have been in use for very much longer than satellites For example virtually all of astronomy can be regarded as being built upon the basis of remote sensing data However this book is concerned with terrestrial remote sensing Jacket 122 pp.…

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Hardbound. Condizione: As New. New. Contents Preface. 1. The beginnings and the background. 2. The Indo Aryans. 3. The Buddha and Buddhism. 4. Greek invasion of India and rise of the Mauryan empire. 5. Expansion of Indian culture under Asoka. 6. India in the early centuries of the Christian era. 7. Rise of Mahayana Buddhism. 8. Beginnings of Indian art and architecture. 9. Extent of Indian cultural expansion as seen by Fa Hien. 10. Age of the Guptas. 11. Puranic and Tantric Hinduism. 12. Indian literature. 13. India in Huien Tsang's time. 14. Decay of Buddhism in India Muslim conquest and the end of Indian cultural expansion. 15. The Lure of South East Asia at the dawn of history. 16. The Brahmans as on the threshold of South East Asia and Early Indian settlements. 17. History of ancient Indonesia and Malaysia. 18. Language and literature. Index. Hugo Munsterberg was the first social scientist at Harvard who sought to merge protestant orientation of American philosophy psychology and sociology with German positive and experimental science. In doing so he affirmed an independent social utility for science in a way that emphasizes positivism's essential assumption that social causes exit are discoverable by objective experimentation and can be rationally utilized to construct a better society. 264 pp. …

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