Emilio Chuvieco is a Professor of Geography and director of the Environmental Ethics chair at the University of Alcalá, Spain, where he coordinates the Master program in Geographic Information Technologies, and leads the "Environmental Remote Sensing Research Group". Visiting professor at the U.C. Berkeley and Santa Barbara, the Canadian Remote Sensing Center and the University of Maryland. He has given short post-graduate courses en 21 countries. Advisor of 35 Ph.D. dissertations. Principal investigator of 30 research projects and 22 contracts. Author of 29 books and 344 scientific papers and book chapters, 141 of which are indexed in Scopus. Former president of the Spanish Remote Sensing Society and the Geographic Information Technologies group of the Association of Spanish Geographers. Corresponding member of the Spanish Academy of Sciences since 2004. He is the science leader of the Fire Disturbance project within the European Space Agency's Climate Change Initiative Program. Co-editor in Chief of Remote Sensing of Environment.

Introduction.

Physical Principles of Remote Sensing.

Sensors and Remote Sensing Satellites.

Basis for Analyzing EO Satellite Images.

Visual Interpretation.

Digital image processing (I): From Raw to Corrected Data.

Digital image processing (II): Generation of Derived Variables.

Validation.

Earth Observation and Geographic Information Systems.

References.

Appendices