Remote Sensing

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Remote Sensing

• Principles and Applications

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Remote Sensing

• What is Remote sensing?
• Why should a Geomatics student study it?

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Remote Sensing, Principles and Applications

• INTRODUCTION
• Course Objectives
• Syllabus
• Course Outline
• Assessment
• Texts

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Remote Sensing, Principles and Applications

• Course Objectives
• To develop an understanding remotely sensed
  imagery in relation to its
• 1. Acquisition
• 2. Processing
• 3. Interpretation and
• 4. Application

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Remote Sensing, Principles and Applications

• Syllabus
• Section One
• Principles of remote sensing
• Human vision and image interpretation
• The nature of electromagnetic radiation
• . Spaceborne and airborne sensors.

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Remote Sensing, Principles and Applications

• Syllabus
• Section Two
• An introduction to digital image processing
  including
• 1.Stretching,
• 2.Digital filters,
• 3.Arithmetic manipulations,
• 4.Image classification.

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Remote Sensing, Principles and Applications

• Syllabus
• Section Three
• Applications
• Environmental
• Geological
• Marine
• Planning

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Remote Sensing, Principles and Applications

• Course Outline
• 1 Introduction to the course.
• Spare
• 2 Human vision /Electromagnetic radiation.
• spare
• 3 Major satellite systems /Image Display.
• Image Display
• 4 Image stretching / Arithmetic manipulations.
• Image stretching

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Course Outline
Remote Sensing, Principles and Applications

• 5 Digital spatial filters / Rectification.
• Image ratio prac
• EASTER BREAK
• 6 Classification.
• Filter Prac
• 7 Geological Applications.
• Classification Prac 1
• 8 Vegetation Mapping
• Classification Prac 2

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Course Outline
Remote Sensing, Principles and Applications

• 9 Environmental Monitoring/ Oceanography.
• Literature review
• 10 Marine Applications.
• Literature review
• 11 Military Applications/Disaster Management.
• Literature review
• 12 Remote Sensing Ethics / Revision

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Remote Sensing, Principles and Applications

• Assessment
• Two hour exam 60
• Literature review of a selected application
  area 10
• Weekly exercise reports 30

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Remote Sensing, Principles and Applications

• Assessment
• Weekly exercise reports
• Five reports
• A minimum of 500 words
• Discuss the exercise - not just report it.
• Due in the Friday of that week.

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Remote Sensing, Principles and Applications

• Assessment
• Literature review of a selected application area
• Normal essay format, 1000 words
• Minimum of five (5) references including at
  least two (2) journal papers.
• Due last Friday of semester - May 28

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Remote Sensing, Principles and Applications

• Literature review of a selected application area
• Introduction
• Give brief introduction to area
• Analysis
• Brief analysis of each paper or reference
• Summary
• Synthesis of the state of the art
• Discuss capabilities and limitations
• Conclusion
• Future development

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Remote Sensing, Principles and Applications

• Literature review of a selected application area
• Suggested Topics -
• Hazard mapping - Fire, Oil spill etc.
• Urban planning
• Environmental monitoring - ozone layer, snow
  and ice mapping, oceans etc.
• Crop assessment
• Sea floor mapping
• Any other application

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Remote Sensing, Principles and Applications

• Image Processing System
• TNT Lite
• Freeware
• Recommend 32m RAM
• Borrow the disc
• Web site http//www.microimages.com
• E-mail info_at_microimages.com
• Address Microimages Inc.
• 201 North 8th Street
• Lincon, NE 68508-1347
• USA

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Remote Sensing, Principles and Applications

• Recommended Text
• Sabins Remote Sensing - Principles and
  Interpretation 3rd Ed. Freeman
• Other Suggested Texts
• Jensen Introductory Digital Image Processing- A
  Remote Sensing Perspective. 2nd Ed. Prentice Hall
• Lillesand and Kiefer Remote sensing and Image
  Interpretation. 2nd Ed. Wiley and sons.
• Drury Image Interpretation in Geology Allen and
  Unwin