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EVSC 494/794
INTRODUCTION TO REMOTE SENSING OF THE ENVIRONMENT
Spring
1999
Combined Lecture/Laboratory
in Wilson 308 Computer Classroom
MWF 12-1PM
Prerequisites: EVSC 350
or permission of the instructor
The purpose of this course is to introduce students to a broad range of satellite remote sensing platforms and datasets and their applications to environmental problems. The course will cover the basics of radiative transfer in the atmosphere. Students will learn how satellite instrumentation works and the techniques and assumptions employed to derive useful parameters from multispectral measurements. The content of the course is interdisciplinary covering research applications of remote sensing in meteorology, hydrology, ecology and geology. This will be a hands-on course in an electronic classroom setting and students will participate in exercises including the routine near real-time analysis and interpretation of evolving weather systems using imagery from weather satellites. Along with weather analysis, students will learn the derivation and interpretation of a wide variety of remotely sensed observations including the following: precipitation rates and amounts over the oceans, changing land use, surface geomorphology, volcanic eruptions, fire detection, sea surface temperature, sea surface height and ocean circulation, biological productivity of the ocean, surface vegatation type and health, atmospheric aerosol concentrations, and total column ozone amount.
Each student will sit at a workstation for on-line lectures/discussions with several laboratory activities (tutorials, hands-on excercises, quizzes) built into the classtime. A final project, on a remote sensing subject chosen by the student, will be prepared as a web-page and presented in-class. (Web-page development and design will be integrated into classroom instruction.)
For further information please contact the instructor in Clark 351.
