This reference integrates a methodology for program development, addressing the gap between the ability to code and the ability to program. It covers three main categories-object modelling as a program design tool, design patterns and their modelling in C++ language structures, and implementing PC hardware related features. TOC:Fundamentals of remote sensing: The nature of electromagnetic radiation.- Physics of remote sensing.- Remote sensing systems.- Satellites and sensors.- Computer Operations on remotely sensed imagery: Image digitization, storage, retrieval.- Digital image processing.- Band operations.- Pixel operations.- Programming for remotely sensed image processing: Programming image operations.- Image enhancement.- Mapping operations.- Data mining.- Appendix A: Software sources.- Appendix B: Image data sources