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Contents
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| Week 1: |
Introduction: Earth Observation and Remote Sensing: History and scope, definitions. |
| Week 2: |
Energy Resources and Radiation Basics (electromagnetic energy and electromagnetic energy resources, Energy distribution, electromagnetic spectrum, wavelengths, photon , black body, Wien and Stefan-Boltzmann rules) A |
| Week 3: |
Atmosphere energy interaction (atmosphere and layers, atmospheric scattering (Mie, Rayleigh, non selective), atmospheric absorption, atmospheric windows) |
| Week 4: |
Energy interaction with earth objects I (reflected energy, absorbed energy, transmitted energy, spectral reflection and curves, spectral reflection and curves. |
| Week 5: |
Energy interaction with earth objects - Vegetation (Spectrometer, water absorption bands, clorofile absorption bands etc.), spectral response patterns, spectral response patterns atmosphere effects (radiance, irradiance, formulas) |
| Week 6: |
Energy interaction with earth objects - Water (Spectrometer, water absorption bands), spectral response patterns, spectral response patterns atmosphere effects (radiance, irradiance, formulas) |
| Week 7: |
Energy interaction with earth objects - Soil (Spectrometer, water absorption bands), spectral response patterns, spectral response patterns atmosphere effects (radiance, irradiance, formulas), quiz |
| Week 8: |
Midterm Exam |
| Week 9: |
Energy interaction with earth objects - Urban + Snow + Cloud (Spectrometer, water absorption bands), spectral response patterns, spectral response patterns atmosphere effects (radiance, irradiance, formulas) |
| Week 10: |
Thermal remote sensing : Remote Sensing Satellites and Study Areas |
| Week 11: |
Microwave Remote Sensing: Remote Sensing Satellites and Study Areas |
| Week 12: |
Remote sensing data acquirement (Platforms, cameras (detectors, optic systems), scanners, active-passive RS systems, stereoscopy), Image record formats |
| Week 13: |
Digital image, general concepts, Analog-Digital concepts, pixel, Analog-Digital transformation, imaging geometry, sampling, Visual Analysis, Image Interpretation Elements, Color Spaces (RGB Space, IHS Space), True Color Image, False Color Image, quiz |
| Week 14: |
Homework presentations |
| Week 15*: |
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| Week 16*: |
Final exam |
| Textbooks and materials: |
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| Recommended readings: |
- Mather, P.M. & Koch, M. (2011). Computer Processing of Remotely-Sensed Images: An Introduction. 4th Edition. Chichester, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.
- Lillesand, T.M., Kiefer, R.W. & Chipman, J.W. (2015). Remote Sensing and Image Interpretation. 7th edition, New York, USA: John Wiley & Sons.
- Campbell, J.B & Wynne, R.H. (2011). Introduction to Remote Sensing (5th ed.), NewYork, USA: The Guilford Press.
- Richards, J.A. (2013). Remote Sensing Digital Image Analysis: An Introduction. Fifth Edition. New York, USA: Springer-Verlag.
- Congalton, R.G., and Green, K., 1998, Assessing the accuracy of remotely sensed data: principles and practices, Lewis Publishers. |
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* Between 15th and 16th weeks is there a free week for students to prepare for final exam.
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