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Acknowledgments

t is very hard to say when the writing of this book started. I initially
became interested in digital image analysis when I was doing my
Imaster’s thesis research at the University of Waterloo and later at the
Canadian Centre for Remote Sensing. At the beginning of my teaching
career, Peng Gong generously shared his lecturing material with me. His
material on the topic of image segmentation has been revised and incor-
porated in this book. After I started my teaching career in the School of
Geography at the University of Auckland, I further acquired new skills in
image analysis and undertook several projects of digital image analysis.
This book could not have been published without the assistance of
Somya Rustagi. She put up with my impatience and sluggish response
to her queries, and chased me for follow-up matters that I had forgotten.
Taisuke Soda at McGraw-Hill deserves special mention for his persistence
in seeing this project through. Stephen Smith offered insightful advice on
how to format the manuscript.
Many publishers and organizations have generously granted me the
use of their copyrighted materials in this book. It is not possible for me to
express my gratitude to all of them as there are too many. However, I
would like to mention ESA for Figs. 2.10 and 2.12; DigitalGlobe for Figs. 2.9
and 13.1; Clark Labs at Clark University for Fig. 4.1; ITT Visual for
Fig. 4.3; Definiens for Fig. 4.6; ERDAS for Figs. 4.2, 4.4, and 11.10; Visual
Learning Systems for Fig. 10.10; ASPRS for Figs. 10.4B and 11.4; Elsevier
for Figs. 9.7 and 10.8 and Table 9.3; Taylor and Francis for Figs. 9.9 and
13.9; Wiley for Figs. 5.5, 6.26, and 7.7; Trimble for Fig. 14.19; and Springer-
Verlag for Fig. 6.24. Tim Noland drew Fig. 5.20. Igor Dracki offered
valuable tips on how to use CoralDraw competently and on preparation
of graphics.
Last but not least, I would like to thank my parents for their support
over the years. Without their generosity I could not have gone to
university and received such a good education. I am especially indebted
to my father, who was always proud of my achievements and who surely
would have been very pleased to see the publication of this book.

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