Electromagnetic radiation and its interaction with matter, Spectral signatures, image formation remote sensors and platforms, resolutions, radiometric and geometric distortions, thermal remote sensing, spectral indices, classification techniques, image transformations, intensity transformations, spatial filtering, image formats, noise reduction, image segmentation.

1. Introduction to Remote Sensing by James B. Campbell, 4th Edition, Guilford Press

2. Remote Sensing and Image Interpretation (5 th Ed.) by Thomas M. Lillesand, and Ralph W. Kiefer, John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

3. Fundamentals of Remote Sensing (3^rd edition) 2018 by George Joseph and C Jegannathan, Universities Press

1. Remote Sensing Digital Image analysis by John A. Richards and XiupingJia, Springer, 2006.

2. Digital Image Processing by R. C. Gonzalez and R. E. Woods, (3 rd Ed.) Prentice Hall.

3. Digital Image processing: A Remote Sensing Perspective by John R. Jensen, Prentice- Hall, 2004.