Abstract

Different types of remote sensing images are routinely recorded in digital form and then processed by computers to produce images for interpreters to study. The simplest form of digital image processing employs a microprocessor that converts the digital data tape into a film image with minimal corrections and calibrations. At the other extreme, large mainframe computers are employed for sophisticated interactive manipulation of the data to produce images in which specific information has been extracted and highlighted.

Keywords
Digital Image, Image Process, Digitizing image.

Introduction
Digital processing did not originate with remote sensing and is not restricted to these data. Many imageprocessing techniques were developed in the medical field to process X-ray images and images from sophisticated body-scanning devices. For remote sensing, the initial impetus was the program of unmanned planetary satellites in the 1960s that telemetered, or transmitted, images to ground receiving stations. The low quality of the images required the development of processing techniques to make the images useful. Another impetus was the Landsat program, which began in 1972 and provided repeated worldwide coverage in digital format. A third impetus is the continued development of faster and more powerful computers, peripheral equipment, and software that are suitable for image processing. This thesis describes and illustrates the major categories of image processing. The processes are illustrated with Landsat examples because these are the most familiar and are readily available to readers; the digital processes, however, are equally applicable to all forms of digital image data. Apart from that we come across the image Image restoration, Image enhancement and Information extraction. Whose can utilize data error, noise, geometric distortions, visual impact that the image has on the interpreter and utilize the decisionmaking capability of the computer to recognize and classify pixels on the basis of their digital signatures.