Reddit reviews Digital Communications: Fundamentals and Applications

For me I was doing bad in the calculus part of a chemistry degree and so I looked for a degree that didn't require calculus, and geography was the one I settled on. Then after taking a remote sensing class I realized the connection infrared spectrometry had to multi- and hyperspectral imagery, and I had used infrared spectrometry a lot at the research chemistry lab I worked for previously. My dad is also an electrical engineer and works on RF and communications stuff, and he's shown me a lot of stuff RF, and there's a good theory book he gave me that helped me understand radar and lidar.

• Neil Degrasse Tyson - He makes science fun
  
• John Hopfield - He made the Hopfield Neural Network, which is potent for remote sensing.
  
• Bernard Sklar - He wrote this astounding book. I've been able to apply many of the topics in the book to my spinning lasers.
  
  There's more, but I do have to get back to writing a paper.
  edit: Used amazing twice, got rid of both instances, it's a milquetoast adjective.