Instructor: Brian Klinkenberg
Office: Room 209
Office hours: Tues 12:30-1:30
Wed 12:00-1:00
TAs: Katie De Rego and Leo King
Office hours in Room 115
Katie: Thur @ 9:00
Leo: Mon @ 10:00
Lab Help: Jose Aparicio
Office: Room 240D
| Week | Tuesday Topic | Thursday Topic | Weekly Lab Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan. 1 - 3 |
Term officially starts on Wednesday |
Introduction
to Course: What is Remote Sensing? |
Image Presentation Image Presentations Schedule |
| Jan. 8 - 10 |
History of Remote Sensing |
Principles of Electromagnetic Energy: Energy, atmospheric, earth surface
interactions |
Lab 1 Introduction to Air Photos and the GIC |
| Jan. 15 - 17 |
Principles
of Electromagnetic Energy continued |
Aerial Photography: Principles | Lab 2 Air Photo Interpretation |
| Jan. 22 - 24 |
Aerial Imagery: Interpretation | Characteristics of remotely sensed imagery: Introduction | Lab 3 Introduction to remotely sensed digital images using GIMP |
| Jan 29 - 31 |
Digital Image Analysis: Introduction Google maps North Korea | Characteristics of remotely sensed imagery: Radiometric resolution | Lab 4 Introduction to IDRISI software. How to obtain a student version of Idrisi. |
| Feb. 5 - 7 |
Characteristics of remotely sensed imagery: Spectral resolution | Characteristics of remotely sensed imagery: Spatial resolution | Work on Lab 4 |
| Feb. 12 - 14 |
Characteristics of remotely sensed imagery: Temporal resolution | MIDTERM TEST | Lab 5 Introduction to image enhancement and unsupervised classification |
| Feb. 19 - 21 |
Midterm Break (no lectures) |
Midterm Break (The lab will be open) |
|
| Feb 26 - 28 |
Digital
Image Analysis: 2. Classification: Unsupervised |
Digital
Image Analysis: 2. Classification: Unsupervised |
Lab 6 Supervised classification |
| Mar.
5 - 7 |
Digital
Image Analysis: 2. Classification: Supervised |
Digital
Image Analysis: 2. Classification: Supervised |
Lab 7 Change detection analysis |
| Mar.
12 - 14 |
Digital Image Analysis: 3. Change detection |
Midterm exams handed back. |
Lab 7 continued. |
| Mar. 19 - 21 |
Digital
Image Analysis: 1. Pre-processing: Geometric correction |
Remote Sensing Sensors: Passive sensors |
Work on project time. Geo Lab open on Saturday, March 23 |
| Mar. 26 - 28 |
Remote Sensing Sensors: LiDAR |
Remote Sensing Sensors: RADAR |
Geo Lab open Friday, March 29 & Monday, April 1 |
| Apr. 2 - 4 | Remote Sensing and Ethics | Course summary | Geo Lab open Saturday, April 6 |
| April | Final exam: Friday, April 12th @ 3:30 | Final Project Due April 12th @ 12:00 | |