Syllabus W4050

Global Assessment and Monitoring
Using Remote Sensing

Instructor:      Chris Small      small@LDEO.columbia.edu

 Schedule:             One hour lecture &  two hour laboratory per week

 Suggested Text:       Remote Sensing of the Environment, J.R. Jensen, 2nd Ed.

 Evaluation:           Midterm (40%), Final (40%), Quizzes (10%), HW (10%)

 WWW:                  http://www.LDEO.columbia.edu/rsvlab/

WEEK:                                         

 

1           Motivation & Applications of Remote Sensing

                 LAB: Introduction to ENVI image processing software

How Remote Sensing Works

Collecting the Data:   Physics of Remote Sensing

2           Light & Heat:  Physics of ElectroMagnetic Radiation

                 LAB: Basic Concepts of Image Processing and Analysis

 3          Color & Reflectance:  Visible & Infrared Spectroscopy

                 LAB: Basic Concepts of Spectral Analysis

 4          Satellites & Orbital Dynamics:  Missions & Data Availability

                 LAB: Projections, Geolocation, Warping

 5          Sensors and Imaging Systems:  DigiCams to Imaging Spectrometers

                 LAB: Spatial & Spectral Resolution of Sensors

Converting Data to Information:    Image Processing & Analysis

6           What Sensors Measure: Detection, Resolution & Sampling 

                 LAB: Contrast Enhancement & Spatial Filtering

 7          Hyperspace: Spectral Transformations & Principal Component Analysis

                 LAB: Spectral Transformations & Principal Component Analysis

 8          Information Extraction:  Thematic Image Classification 

                 LAB: Supervised, Unsupervised & Nonparametric Classification

 9          Physical Measurement & Modeling: Spectral Mixture Analysis

                 LAB: Spectral Mixture Modeling

Applications of Remote Sensing:

 

10          Spatio-temporal Analysis & Modeling 

                 LAB: Vegetation phenology mapping

 11         Change Detection and Land Cover Change Mapping

                 LAB: Multitemporal Change Detection

 12         Vegetation Mapping & Monitoring

                 LAB: Vegetation Spectroscopy

 13         Image Interpretation & Field Validation

                 LAB: TBA

 

Last Modification: 8/30/13