ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I wish to extend my sincere thanks to all the contributors of this book for making this
endeavor possible. Moreover, I offer my deepest appreciation to all the reviewers,
who have taken precious time from their busy schedules to review the chapters.
Finally, I am indebted to my family for their enduring love and support. It is my
hope that this book will stimulate students and researchers to perform more in-depth
analysis of scale issues in remote sensing and Geographic Information Science.
The reviewers of the chapters are listed here in alphabetical order: Aleksey Boyko,
Alexander Buyantuyev, Anatoly Gitelson, Angelos Tzotsos, Benjamin Bechtel,
Caiyun Zhang, Cedric Vega, Charles Emerson, Gang Chen, Guangxing Wang,
Haibo Yao, Hannes Taubenboeck, Hongbo Su, Hong-lie Qiu, Iryna Dronova, Jianjun
Ge, Lee De Cola, Prasad Thenkabail, Qi Chen, Shelley Meng, Xin Miao, Yuhong He,
and Zhixiao Xie.
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