| ES 555 Small-Format
Aerial Photography
James S. Aber
Emporia State University |
Techniques of small-format aerial photography. Acquisition of airphotos with conventional cameras as well as compact digital cameras. Low-altitude, large-scale photography from airplanes, kites and balloons. Handling, scanning, processing, interpretation, enhancement, and display of analog and digital aerial images. Practical field and laboratory exercises. Course is designed for students in the geospatial analysis program.
http://academic.emporia.edu/aberjame/airphoto/syllabus.htm
- Professor: James S. Aber, email: jaber@emporia.edu.
- Prerequisite: EB/ES/GE 351 Introduction to Geospatial Analysis or consent of instructor.
- Credit Hours: 3.
- Textbook: Small-format aerial photography: Principles, techniques, and geoscience applications (Aber, Marzolff and Ries 2010). Available online for new copies about $75.
- Idrisi is the most widely licensed raster-based GIS and image-processing software in the world. It combines ease of use and low cost with surprisingly powerful analytical capabilities.
- For additional image processing of our airphotos, Adobe Photoshop is the standard software. However, other freeware is available with surprising capabilities. Your instructor recommends the following.
This course is intended to build upon content from ES 351, in which basic concepts of aerial photography are covered. These concepts will be elaborated with an emphasis on practical exercises based on actual field acquisition of aerial photographs. The course will combine state-of-the-art photographic techniques with computer hardware and software for processing small-format airphotos. An integration of physical, biological, and cultural (human) processes will be stressed for applications and interpretation of aerial photography.
Course Availability
This course will be taught during the summer session in June and early July 2012. Regular (on-campus) students should enroll through normal procedures for ES 555. The course is also available for distance learning from Emporia State University. Off-campus students should enroll through Distance Education. ES 555 ZA is for undergraduate students; ES 555 XA is graduate credit. In order to receive university credit, students must be officially enrolled and must be in contact with the instructor for course materials and directions.
All course curriculum is presented via this webpage.
Blackboard is not used for this course.
This course is offered by the Earth Science department for the use and benefit of students enrolled at Emporia State Univeristy. All course curriculum © by the author. Please send your comments to the course instructor, J.S. Aber, e-mail: jaber@emporia.edu.
Last update: March 2012.
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