ES 771 Schedule

James S. Aber

Lecture and laboratory materials for this course are presented via World Wide Web, and datasets for lab exercises are provided by FTP. On-campus students meet once a week, Wednesdays 1:00-2:20 in the Geospatial Analysis Lab (SH 16). Students are encouraged to contact the instructor at any time via e-mail. The following schedule is set up on a weekly basis for each Wednesday (except last week).

Aerial eye blog.


Schedule for Fall Semester 2012 -- First Block

Week Topic Web Lecture Read * Supplement * Lab Special
Aug. 15 Introduction to remote sensing Introduction to Remote Sensing RSE 1, 2 RST 2-1, 2-2, 2-3, 2-4 Idrisi tutorial Establish e-mail
Aug. 22 Photography Aerial Photography
RSE 3, 4 RST Sec. 10-1 Lab 1: Aerial photography
Aug. 29 Photogrammetry Photogrammetry Basics RSE 6 RST Sec. Sec. 10-2 Lab 2: Landsat MSS
Sep. 5 Landsat I Introduction to Landsat RSE 7 RST 2-15, 2-16, 2-17, 2-20 Complete labs 1-2 Labor Day
Sep. 12 Multispectral scanning
Thermal-IR sensing 		Spectral Signatures RSE 8 RST 2-5, 2-24, Sec. 9 Lab 3: Landsat
MSS and TM
Sep. 19 NOAA AVHRR Vegetation Monitoring RSE 11 RST Sec. 3 Lab 4: Landsat TM
vegetation analysis
Sep. 26 Manned-space photography Space Photography RST Sec. 12 and 2-14
Lab 5: Ikonos imagery
Oct. 3 Mid-term exam Exam period: Oct. 1-4
Oct. 10 Landsat II Landsat applications RSE 7 RST Sec. 6 and Sec. 7 Complete labs 3-5

* RSE = Remote sensing of the environment.
RST = Remote sensing tutorial.

Schedule for Fall Semester 2012 -- Second Block

Week Topic Web Lecture Read * Supplement * Lab Special
Oct. 17 Microwave and radar Space-based radar RSE 9 RST 2-25, Sec. 8 Lab: 6 SAR imagery Fall break
Oct. 24 Remote sensing and GIS RS/GIS on Internet RSE 10 RST Sec. 15 Lab 7: Internet imagery search Form teams
Oct. 31 Image interpretation I RSE 5, 12 RST Sec. 2, Sec. 4 Sec. 5, Sec. 17 Lab 8: Landsat data searching Team project proposals
Nov. 7 Image interpretation II RSE 13, 14 Geomorphology
from space 		Complete labs
Nov. 14 Ground observation and
Bidirectional reflectance 		Ground truth RSE 15 RST Sec. 13 Project preparation
Nov. 21 All labs due (see note) Thanksgiving
Nov. 28 NASA's Mission to Planet Earth NASA MTPE RST Sec. 16 Project preparation
Dec. 5 Project completion Present projects Final projects
due Dec. 10th
Dec. 10 Final exam Exam period: Dec. 7-11

Schedule note: all lab exercises are due by Nov. 21st.
No late exercises will be accepted thereafter.

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Last updated Feb. 2012.

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