H. J. HAUBOLD& CH. KAMLAGE-OLGUN: Preface . . . 5 ; P. BANKWITZ &F. K. LIST: Editors’ Foreword . . . 7 ; The Organizing and Participating Institutions . . . 9 ; P. BANKWITZ & E. BANKWITZ: Geology and Remote Sensing Data: Visual Interpretation Methods . . . 11 ; F. K. LIST: Remote Sensing and Digital Image Processing: Current Status and Trends . . . 19 ; F. K. LIST: Basic Physics of Remote Sensing . . . 27 ; F. K. LIST: Remote Sensing Data Acquisition Systems: Photography, Scanners, and Microwave Systems . . . 37 P. BANKWITZ & E. BANKWITZ: Application of Satellite Data to Seismic Risk Assessment: Strain Analysis of Fault Lineament Systems . . . 51 ; V. G. TRIFONOV: Remote Sensing of Geological Hazards . . . 59 ; P. BANKWITZ: Interpretation of Remote Sensing Data and Development of Geological Models . . . 65 ; T. WOLDAi: The Application of Remote Sensing to the Study of Arid to semi-arid Lands . . . 107 ; M. PUNKARi: Remote Sensing Applications in Tropical Africa: Environmental Geology . . . 115 ; M. ANTONINETTI, P. A. BRIVIO, M. A. GOMARASCA & E. ZlLIOLI: Remote Sensing Applications in Water Resources with Case Studies in Sahel Areas, West Africa . . . 125 ; W. KRUCK: Application of Remote Sensing to Groundwater Prospection in the Third World . . . 135 ; H.-P. JÖNS: Comparative Planetology Mars - Earth - Venus . . . 141 ; J. LICHTENEGGER: Trends of Remote Sensing in Application of the ESA Programme . . . 145 ; H. J. FRANZKE & P. BANKWITZ: Introduction to the Geology of the Harz Mountains Border-fault Zone and Adjoining Areas . . . 151 ;