Course Syllabus:

Spring 2009 Syllabus

Textbook:

(Same book as used in GEOG 413)

Lillesand, Kiefer, and Chipman. 2008. Remote Sensing and Image Interpretation, 6th edition. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, New York. ISBN13: 978-0-470-05245-7

Note: The older 5th edition of this book will also be suitable.

Lab Activities:

Click the links for a brief overview and some images from each Exercise

Lab Exercise 1 -- Georegistration & Georectification

Lab Exercise 2 -- Utilizing Threshholds & Masks; Working with Regions of Interest

Lab Exercise 3 -- Working With Spatial Filters, Band Ratios, and Spectral Indices

Lab Exercise 4 -- Principal Components Analysis

Lab Exercise 5 -- Image Classification: Unsupervised Methods

Lab Exercise 6 -- Image Classification II: Supervised Approach

Web Resources:

New links are currently being added so check back often!

Selected sites that distribute remote sensing data:

• Global Land Cover Facility (GLCF) -- University of Maryland
• Earth Observing System (EOS) Data Gateway -- USGS
• Earth Explorer -- USGS
• Global Visualization Viewer -- USGS Site linking to the free Landsat archives
• West Virginia View -- also contains a very good Links page with useful tutorials and other information
• Data Pool -- free ASTER and MODIS datasets from the USGS Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center

Selected sites pertaining to remote sensing instruments:

• NASA JPL's ASTER Site
• USGS Landsat Site
• NASA GSFC's MODIS Site

Selected sites pertaining to remote sensing applications & research:

• USDA Forest Service Remote Sensing Applications Center
• MODIS Active Fire Mapping Program
• CEARS -- Center for Environmental Applications in Remote Sensing (Virginia Tech)
• CReSIS -- Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (University of Kansas)
• LARS -- Laboratory for Applications of Remote Sensing (Purdue University)
• CSTARS -- Center for Spatial Technologies and Remote Sensing (Uuniversity of California - Davis)
• Please visit the Course Page for GEOG 413 for additional examples of remote sensing applications sites

Selected sites pertaining to the ENVI software:

• ITT Visual Information Solutions Main Site
• ENVI Product Site

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