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I made this book for those studying or starting research on the remote sensing system. The purpose of publishing this book is that people conducting research acquire basic and practical knowledge about the remote sensing system first, and furthermore, this book leads you to proceed in the correct direction when you research it in detail. Incidentally, this book shows the whole remote sensing system including the synthetic-design of the remote sensing system, satellite design, ground equipment design, satellite operation design, data processing, etc., and I described so that you can advance the design of the remote sensing system while grasping the whole of it. Especially synthetic-design is the essential design method for designing a remote sensing system. From now on, as the elemental technologies in various fields advance, furthermore the parts become smaller and higher performance and lower cost, so I believe that remote sensing system technology will also evolve reflecting them and I believe it will develop towards making it compact, high performance, low cost, and simplification. I think that research fields in the future will incorporate such trends.

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Imura, Nobuyoshi
Studied Engineering at Keio University. Development of Synthetic Aperture Radar, and JERS-1, Project Manager of Remote Sensing and Chief Engineer at Mitsubishi Electric Corporation. Councilor of Information Gathering Satellite at Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. Associate Professor and Project Manager of Small SAR Satellite at Chiba University.

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