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Remote
Sensing of the Environment
GEOG 4093/5093 - Spring
2008 Lecture Lab Office hours: Teaching Assistant Office hours: CIRES Ekeley S250A, Thursday.10:30-12:30; Tuesday. 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Khalid Hussein; Tel: 303-492-6782
Required Text Remote Sensing of the Environment: An Earth Resource perspective, John R. Jensen, Prentice Hall Series in Geographic Information Science, 2nd edition, Year published 2007, (ISBN 0-13-188950-8).
Lecture Notes All
lecture notes are on the class home page (Script)
Grading Midterm
(30%), 06 March, 2008; Final (40%), 01 May, 2008, Lab (30%), to be
returned following
week during lab.
Course Outline Global
environmental change is one of the most pressing international issues
of the next century. There is need to monitor the earth’s vital
signs from atmospheric ozone to sea level change. Satellite data
sets will be vital in addressing global change issues, in determining
natural variability and monitoring global and regional changes.
The course is designed to introduce students to
the techniques of remote sensing measurements of environmental
parameters from aircraft and satellite platforms. The course is
based on the application of simple physical principles of
electromagnetic radiation. Different sensing systems such as
electro-optical systems, passive microwave systems, ranging systems and
scattering techniques will be discussed with applications for the
atmosphere, cryosphere, lithosphere and biosphere.
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