This document discusses remote sensing technology and its history. It describes how remote sensing works by gathering information from objects without direct contact through various components like energy source, sensors, transmission and processing. It outlines different types of remote sensing like passive and active, and systems used like optical, radar and lidar. It provides details on optical remote sensing systems including panchromatic, multispectral, super spectral and hyperspectral imaging. Finally, it lists some application areas of remote sensing like forestry, agriculture, hydrology and land use.