ABOUT THE REMOTE SENSING TUTORIAL

THE REMOTE SENSING TUTORIAL, as it appears on the Internet and on CD-ROM, may well be the most comprehensive, diverse, and up-to-date exposition and review of the history and accomplishments of both NASA’s space program and similar endeavors being made by other nations since the era of Sputnik and Explorer. Remote sensing is defined as the operation of electronic sensors that measure radiation and fields so as to observe and gather information from features such as the Earth’s land, ocean, and atmosphere while operating (from satellites and aircraft) at distances above these targets of interest. The Tutorial’s main thesis: remote sensing is the most widely used technique for monitoring and managing the environments within which the world’s people live and interact. Moreover, remote sensing has been the chief tool used by scientists looking outward from our planet to objects in the Solar System and to the cosmological realm that constitutes the observable Universe. Thus, a Web-based summary of remote sensing enterprises, on which more money has been spent by various space agencies than any other part of their programs, is clearly called for. The Tutorial meets this need by the scope and depth of its subjects and topics, both theoretical and applied, that it covers. Its hallmark: the plethora of illustrations (more than 1000) interspersed within its text. The Tutorial uses a format that explains remote sensing through educational devices such as numerous questions and several quizzes; exposure to fundamental principles and numerous applications contribute to the learning. In effect, the Remote Sensing Tutorial serves to organize into one expansive, integrated overview the many diverse aspects of national and international space programs usually presented in isolated, often piecemeal (and often brief) synopses (commonly confined to a single topic) on the Net. It also stays "current" as new material and information gleaned from other sources across the Internet are searched for on a daily basis and, if pertinent, added immediately to its active Web Site

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