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Book Review: Classification methods for remotely sensed data

treated in such a general manner. The book ends with some personal reflections by the author, some of which might have been better placed in the Preface. Overall I was disappointed by Smol’s book. I had been expecting an authoritative text providing in-depth coverage, paleolimnological research (including its methods) within an appropriate scientific context (plus coverage of allied sedimentary settings such as peatlands or salt marshes). However, in seeking too wide a coverage, the depth of scientific analysis is lost. There is fairly little about rivers, despite the book’s title, and related research (e.g., peat, Holocene coastal sediments) gets relatively little attention. The editors may well be pleased at the breadth of coverage, but I would have preferred a narrower focus. Undergraduates will probably not start here for a general introduction to an environmental issue and will certainly need to look elsewhere for necessary technical detail. For me, Smol’s book is neither one thing nor the other, which is a pity, a missed opportunity to produce something really significant in terms of environmental change from an interesting scientific perspective.