This is the web page for the National Aeronautics & Space Administration's Remote Sensing Tutorial, a training manual for learning the role of space science and technology and for using remote sensing to monitor planetary bodies and distant stars and galaxies. The Earth itself is the main focus. The tutorial defines remote sensing and then provides an in-depth explanation of how remote sensing is applied to the study of the land, sea, air and biotic communities that comprise the Earth's environments, its vital role in exploring the planets and reaching the stars and galaxies well out into the Cosmos. Not only does it provide insight into past uses of aerial photography and space imagery, but it also helps the user develop skills in interpreting these visual displays and data sets by direct inspection and by computer processing. Using a processing program called PIT, it even allows the user to apply their newly acquired knowledge to actual image interpretation on "raw" image data available from the Internet. Due to the comprehensive nature of the tutorial, it is adequate for use either as a bona fide text or as a supplement.
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