This book gathers selected and expanded contributions presented at the 4th Symposium on Space Optical Instruments and Applications, which was held in Delft, the Netherlands, on October 16-18, 2017. This conference series is organized by the Sino-Holland Space Optical Instruments Laboratory, a cooperative platform between China and the Netherlands. The symposium focused on key technological problems regarding optical instruments and their applications in a space context. It covered the latest developments, experiments and results on the theory, instrumentation and applications of space optics. The book is split into five main sections: The first covers optical remote sensing system design, the second focuses on advanced optical system design, and the third addresses remote sensor calibration and measurement. Remote sensing data processing and information extraction are then presented, followed by a final section on remote sensing data applications.

Autorentext
Prof. Dr. Paul Urbach, head of the Optics Research Group of Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands and fromer president and member of the executive committee of the European Optical Society. Research areas of his optics group include Integrated Photonics, Interferometry and Imaging, Diffraction Theory, Data Storage.

Prof. Yu Qifeng is professor and doctoral supervisor in the Military Aerospace Department of the School of Materials Science and Engineering in the National University of Defense Technology (NUDT), China. He graduated from Northwestern Polytechnical University and obtained his Master's degree from the Space Technology Department in NUDT. He earned his PhD at the Institute of Applied Laser Technology (BIAS), Bremen University, Germany. He worked as research associate, teaching assistant and lecturer at NUDT and became full professor and doctoral supervisor in NUDT until now. He was elected as Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2009.

Inhalt
Space optical remote sensing system design.- Advanced optical system design.- Remote sensor calibration and measurement.- Remote sensing data processing and information extraction.- Remote sensing data applications.