GIS 420 - Remote Sensing & Image Analysis

Earth imaging from satellites, aircraft and remote sensors is increasingly crucial to visualizing and analyzing environmental change. This course introduces remote sensing technologies used in mapping, with an emphasis on satellite imagery and lidar. Using industry-standard software and imagery, students learn basic image analysis for oceanographic modeling, land cover change detection, climate analysis and similar applications. The course combines lecture, discussion and mapping exercises to cover the major remote sensing technologies and image formats, the physics of light and optics, potential sources of error, analytical methods and applications of remote sensing in a variety of fields. The semester culminates in a final project.

Prerequisites: GIS 300 and GIS 400, or permission of instructor.

Course Typically Offered Every Spring

Credits: 4