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		Preface		vii
1		Remote sensing in the optical and microwave regions		1
		1.1  Introduction to remote sensing		5
		1.2  Optical remote sensing systems		11
		1.3  Atmospheric correction		12
		1.4  Correction for topographic effects		21
		1.5  Remote sensing in the microwave region		24
		1.6  Radar fundamentals		25
		1.7  Imaging radar polarimetry		33
		1.8  Radar speckle suppression		40
2		Pattern recognition principles		54
		2.1  Feature space manipulation		56
		2.2  Feature selection		67
		2.3  A brief description of pattern recognition techniques		68
		2.4  Combining classifiers		86
		2.5  Incorporation of ancillary information		87
		2.6  Sampling scheme and sample size		90
		2.7  Estimation of classification accuracy		95
		2.8  Epilogue		100
3		Pattern recognition using artificial neural networks		102
		3.1  Multi-layer perceptron		103
		3.2  Kohonen’s self-organising feature map		114
		3.3  Counter-propagation networks		122
		3.4  Hopfield networks		125
		3.5  Adaptive resonance theory (ART)		133

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