GEOS 5210 - Geological and Environmental Remote Sensing

The course provides rigorous (70% of student’s effort) hands-on-exercises on the applications of remote sensing techniques in geological and in environmental sciences. The hands-on exercises are primarily based on case studies that were published in peer-reviewed articles, data downloaded fro our receiving station, and/or data collected by the students using hand-held VNIR spectro-radiometer. In the process of solving the lab exercise, the students will master image processing techniques. The fundamentals of remote sensing will be covered as well, since the student cannot start dealing with applications unless he or she knows the fundamentals. Throughout the course, the students will workwith a wide-range of space-borne data sets including CORONA, Landsat MSS, Landsat TM, SPOT, ASTER, SIR-C, SRTM, AVIRIS, ASAR, and ERS.

Credits 4 hrs.

Notes:
Open to Upperclass and Graduate Students. Prerequisites applicable to all 5000-level courses in Geology are junior status or above and 12 or more credit hours of course work in geology, including the specific prerequisite for each course, or consent of instructor.