An Introduction to Satellite Image Interpretation

There are not a lot of textbooks that cover satellite-image based weather identification and forecasting, and luckily, Conway's book is still available. He starts out covering ca. 1990s satellite image technology and moves on to sat-based geography before diving deeply into sat image interpretation for weather forecasters and enthusiasts. Conway's approach is outstanding, simultaneously providing the reader with the weather theory that is manifest in the sat images. I run a NOAA APT satellite downlink system at home (receiving signals from the NOAA polar orbiters on 137MHz and processing the telemetry w/software) so I put what I learn from Conway to work every day. Overall, it's a fascinating, well written book. I hope that this book gets an update someday, so as to take advantage of the advances in weather satellite imagery in the last 15 years since it was printed.

I mean it's a book. I got an A in the class. Meh.

nice full book

Not as deep as I thought.

Great information on how to read satellite images. Will greatly help in Meteorology studies whether you're a student or a more advanced hobbyist. It is best to have an introduction into meteorology such as "Meteorology Today" before reading this book. It will help in your understanding of the text.

I am just getting started in the class where I am using this book and so far it is quite informative

I was disappointed as the material covered only meterology. While very good, I was hoping for some coverage of vegetation and geology.

Useful for all interested in weather satellite images even though a little dated now.

I am an neophyte to this study, I found this book to be a really well written introduction to a very interesting subject. My only complaint is that I am unable to get the accompanying CD to work on my Windows8. I would really recommend this book to anyone interested in the marvellous often subtle images from the weather satellitesPeadaro