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Syllabus ( GEOD 668 )


   Basic information
Course title: Special Topics in Remote Sensing
Course code: GEOD 668
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Taşkın KAVZOĞLU
ECTS credits: 7.5
GTU credits: 3 (3+0+0)
Year, Semester: 1/2, Fall and Spring
Level of course: Third Cycle (Doctoral)
Type of course: Area Elective
Language of instruction: Turkish
Mode of delivery: Face to face
Pre- and co-requisites: None
Professional practice: No
Purpose of the course: The aim of this course is to provide experience to students in conducting a remote sensing project on their own, to use well-known remote sensing software packages, to conduct a literature review and make oral presentations for presenting the results of their projects.
   Learning outcomes Up

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

  1. conduct a research on their own upon a special topic in remote sensing field

    Contribution to Program Outcomes

    1. Gain skills to specify, model and solve engineering problems.
    2. Gain skills for project planning and application and also abilities to analyse and interpret the results.
    3. Gain skills to drive multi discipliner teamwork

    Method of assessment

    1. Term paper
  2. make literature review and present the results of a project

    Contribution to Program Outcomes

    1. Gain skills for project planning and application and also abilities to analyse and interpret the results.
    2. Gain technical skills cencerning applications in the disipline by using modern tools, equipments and hardware of Geodetic and Photogrammetric Engineering.
    3. Develop an innovative method, approach, design and/or practice in Geodetic and Photogrammetric Engineering.
    4. Communicate with peers at national and international level and attend orally and in written to scientific organizations
    5. Field-based Competence

    Method of assessment

    1. Written exam
  3. Process remotely sensek images (optic and radar) using well-known software packages

    Contribution to Program Outcomes

    1. Define and apply advanced concepts of Geodetic and Photogrammetric Engineering
    2. Gain technical skills cencerning applications in the disipline by using modern tools, equipments and hardware of Geodetic and Photogrammetric Engineering.
    3. Develop an innovative method, approach, design and/or practice in Geodetic and Photogrammetric Engineering.

    Method of assessment

    1. Written exam
    2. Homework assignment
   Contents Up
Week 1: Advance classification techniques used to classifing remotely sensed images
Week 2: Automatically monitoring catchment area and structuring in this area using satellite images
Week 3: The use of remote sensing in environmental pollution
Week 4: Analysis of urbanization effects on environment
Week 5: Analysis of deforestation and/or natural changes in forest areas
Week 6: Monitoring of coastal areas and water pollution, Soil, water and forest analysis using radar images
Week 7: Monitoring of marine pollution using radar images
Week 8: Midterm Exam, Radiometric problems and error sources in radar images
Week 9: Crop yield estimation using remotely sensed images
Week 10: Geological applications using satellite images
Week 11: Integration of Remote sensing and geographical information systems
Week 12: Hyperspectral image analysis
Week 13: Extracting Texture information in classification
Week 14: The use of satellite images in urbanization, planning and infrastructure applications. Submission of the project report and make oral presentation.
Week 15*: .
Week 16*: Final exam
Textbooks and materials: Mather, P. M., 1999, Computer processing of remotely-sensed images: an introduction: Chichester, John Wiley.
Recommended readings: Jensen, J. R., 1996, Introductory digital image processing - a remote sensing perspective: London, Prentice Hall.
Lillesand, T. M., and R. W. Kiefer, 1994, Remote sensing and image interpretation: New York, John Wiley & Sons.
Campbell, J. B., 1987, Introduction to remote sensing: London, The Guilford Press.
Maktav, D. ve Sunar, F., 1991, Uzaktan algılama, kantitatif yaklaşım: İstanbul, Hürriyet Ofset A.Ş.
Barrett, E.C., and Curtis, L.F., 1999, An introduction to environmental remote sensing, Routledge.
Congalton, R.G., and Green, K., 1998, Assessing the accuracy of remotely sensed data: principles and practices, Lewis Publishers.
  * Between 15th and 16th weeks is there a free week for students to prepare for final exam.
Assessment Up
Method of assessment Week number Weight (%)
Mid-terms: 8 30
Other in-term studies: 0
Project: 14 30
Homework: 0
Quiz: 0
Final exam: 16 40
  Total weight:
(%)
   Workload Up
Activity Duration (Hours per week) Total number of weeks Total hours in term
Courses (Face-to-face teaching): 3 14
Own studies outside class: 3 14
Practice, Recitation: 0 0
Homework: 0 0
Term project: 5 10
Term project presentation: 2 1
Quiz: 0 0
Own study for mid-term exam: 6 4
Mid-term: 2 1
Personal studies for final exam: 6 4
Final exam: 2 1
    Total workload:
    Total ECTS credits:
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  * ECTS credit is calculated by dividing total workload by 25.
(1 ECTS = 25 work hours)
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