These proceedings contain lectures, research papers and working group reports from the NATO Advanced Study Institute on "Surveillance of environmental pollution and resources by electromagnetic waves", held at Spatind, Norway, April 9-19, 1978. Remote sensing of the environment has developed into a very complex multidisciplinary field. It encompasses a huge range of different instrumental techniques and analytical methods, designed to provide information about a vast number of environmental parameters. Nevertheless, the approach to solve specific problems and the ways of handling the collected information are to a large extent the same or similar. This commonality is the basis for the Advanced Study Institute. To provide the best possible background, both tutoria11y and for a fruitful exchange of research ideas and results, a number of outstanding scientists were invited to review some major fields. The material presented in these proceedings is certainly not complete in the sense that it covers all aspects of the subject. The selection is deliberately due to the program committee and the editor. The program committee would like to express their gratitude to Dr. Ti10 Kester, head of the NATO Advanced Study Institute Program, NATO Scientific Affairs Division, for his support and encouragement during the organization of the Institute. Oslo, June 1978.

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I: Fundamentals.- Fundamental Behaviour of Biosystems in Connection to Surveillance of Environmental Pollution and Resources.- Fundamentals of Remote Sensing Methodology.- II: The Atmosphere.- Fundamentals of Atmospheric Spectroscopy.- Signal-to-Noise Ratio of Heterodyne Lidar Systems in the Presence of Atmospheric Turbulence.- Remote Measurements of Atmospheric Properties from Satellites.- Infrared Laser Automated Field Instrumentation for Monitoring of the Atmosphere.- Remote Sensing in the Atmosphere by Means of Fixed Frequency IR Laser.- Millimetre Remote Sensing of the Stratosphere and Mesosphere.- Active Heterodyne Spectrometry with an Airborne CO2 Laser System.- Holographic Real Time Seeing Through Moving Scattering Media.- Working Group: Probing of the Atmosphere.- III: The Earth's Surface; Land - Sea.- Scattering of Electromagnetic Waves from the Ocean.- The Radar Signature of Natural Surfaces and its Application in Active Microwave Remote Sensing.- Microwave Radiometry Applications to Remote Sensing.- Correction of Airborne IR-Scanner Data.- Laser - Induced Fluorescence Techniques for Sounding of the Hydrosphere.- Microwave Measurements Over Sea in the Netherlands.- Applications of Remote Sensing by Conventional Radars.- Ericsson Slar.- Working Group: Ocean Waves.- IV: Methods of Information Retrieval.- The Fourier Transform: Properties and Applications.- Pattern Recognition - With Special Emphasis on Image Processing.- Digital Analysis of Multi-Channel Radar Data at CCRS.- Experiences from Applying Aircraft and Satellite MSS-Data to Earth Resources Inventory Problems in Sweden.- Working Group: Signal Processing, Pattern Recognition and Image Processing.