Welcome to the home page for Geob 373 -- Introductory Remote Sensing.

This course is designed to provide you with knowledge of the fundamental principles of remote sensing necessary for the utilization of remotely sensed imagery, in conjunction with GIS, in geographic analysis and environmental change detection. Topics we will cover in the course include an overview of remote sensing, aerial photography, digital image resolution (spatial, spectral, radiometric and temporal), and digital image analysis (enhancements, geometric correction, supervised and unsupervised classification, accuracy assessment and change detection analysis). We will also review radar, sonar, lidar, and applications of remotely sensed data. In the labs you will be introduced to air photos and to the remote sensing software program IDRISI, which you will use for digital image display, image enhancement and image analysis.

Using the menu above you can access the course description, as well as the schedule of lectures and labs (with links to the lecture materials and the labs). As this is the first time I have taught this course, the web-site contents will evolve as we progress through the term.

Course Objectives
Upon completion of the course you should be capable of selecting the correct type of remotely sensed data for use in geographic and environmental analysis problems, and be able to conduct basic remote sensing image enhancement and analysis with remote sensing software.