Meet the editor

Dr. Rustam B. Rustamov is a freelance expert on space science and technology. He was in charge of Azerbaijan National Aerospace Agency activities as Acting Director General. Dr. Rustamov specializes mainly in space instrumentation and remote sensing and GIS technology. He was invited to the work at the European Space Agency within the Framework of the United Nations Program on Space Applications at the European Space Research

and Technology Center, The Netherlands. Rustam B. Rustamov is a member of the Cambridge Scholars Publishing International Editorial Advisory Board, Astronomy & Astrophysics, London, UK. He is an author of 15 books, published under major publishers in Europe and United States, and he has written and published over 120 scientific papers.

Contents

**Section 1**

**Section 2**

*by Rustam B. Rustamov*

*by Upendra Kumar*

*and Kacem Chehdi*

*and Gennadii Zhbankov*

*and Jorge Montejano*

**Section 3**

**Section 4**

**Preface III**

Aerospace Image Processing **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

Spatial Frequency Representation **9**

**Chapter 2 11**

**Chapter 3 27**

Ionospheric Monitoring Systems **45**

**Chapter 4 47**

High Resolution Satellite Data Application **67**

**Chapter 5 69**

**Chapter 6 89**

High-Resolution Satellite Imagery Classification for Urban Form Detection

Water Management in Irrigation Systems by Using Satellite Information

*by Juan Manuel Núñez, Sandra Medina, Gerardo Ávila* 

*by Gema Marco Dos Santos, Ignacio Meléndez Pastor, Jose Navarro Pedreño and Ignacio Gómez Lucas*

Reverse Satellite Transionospheric Sounding: Advantages and Prospects *by Igor Ivanov, Olga Maltseva, Vladimir Sotskii, Alexandr Теrtyshnikov*

Lossy Compression of Remote Sensing Images with Controllable Distortions *by Vladimir Lukin, Alexander Zemliachenko, Sergey Krivenko, Benoit Vozel* 

Introductory Chapter: Aerospace Information Classification

Pan-sharpening Using Spatial-frequency Method

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*by John R. Mecikalski and Eric W. Harmsen* 
