Steven Dutch, Natural and Applied Sciences, University
of Wisconsin - Green Bay
Office: LS 463, Phone: 465-2246
email: dutchs@uwgb.edu, HOME PAGE: http://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs
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| Week | Topic | Reading | Hands-On |
| Jan. 26- Jan. 30 | Introduction | Map Basics | |
| Feb. 2 - Feb. 6 | Electromagnetic Radiation | Introduction to Excel | |
| Feb. 9- Feb. 13 | Satellites and Orbits | Formulas | |
| Feb. 16 - Feb. 20 | Remote Sensing Systems | Functions, lookup tables | |
| Feb. 23 - Feb. 27 | Mapping and Map Projections | Graphing | |
| Mar. 2 - Mar. 6 | Datums and UTM | Macros | |
| Mar. 9- Mar. 13 | Photogrammetry | Data Sources on Line | |
| Mar. 14 - Mar. 22 | Spring Break | ||
| Mar. 23 - Mar. 27 | Imagery outside the visible spectrum | Google Earth | |
| Mar. 30 - Apr. 3 | Remote Sensing and the Atmosphere | UTM | |
| Apr. 6 - Apr. 10 | Remote Sensing of the Oceans | Special Grid Systems | |
| Apr. 13- Apr. 17 | Remote Sensing of Rocks and Soils | HTML | |
| Apr. 20 - Apr. 24 | Remote Sensing of Vegetation | ||
| Apr. 27 - May 1 | |||
| May 4 - May 8 | Radar and Lidar | ||
Text: NASA Tutorial on Remote Sensing
Final Exam Wednesday, May 13, 10:30 - 12:30 AM
Grading: xxxx
1. Introduction to Concepts and Systems
Units of Measure / Electromagnetic Energy / Electromagnetic Spectrum / Image Characteristics / Vision / Remote Sensing Systems / Spectral Reflectance Curves / Multispectral Imaging Systems / Hyperspectral Scanning Systems / Sources of Remote Sensing Information
2. Photographs from Aircraft and Satellites
Interactions between Light and Matter / Film Technology / Characteristics of Aerial Photographs / Photomosaics / Stereo Pairs of Aerial Photographs / Low-Sun-Angle Photographs / Black-and-White Photographs / Color Science / Normal Color Photographs / IR Color Photographs / Normal Color and IR Color Photographs Compared / High-Altitude Aerial Photographs / Sources of Aerial Photographs / New Technology / Photographs from Satellites
3. Landsat Images
Landsats 1, 2, and 3 / Landsats 4 and 5 / Orbit Patterns / Path-and-Row Index Maps / Selecting and Ordering Images / Landsat Mosaics / Regional Interpretation, Saudi Arabia / Detailed Image Interpretation, Saharan Atlas Mountains, Algeria / Seasonal Influence on Images / Lineaments / Plate-Tectonic Interpretations
4. Earth Resource and Environmental Satellites
SPOT Satellite, France / SPOT and Landsat Images Compared / JERS-1 Satellite, Japan / India Remote Sensing Satellite / Geostationary Environmental Satellites / Polar-Orbiting NOAA Environmental Satellites / Environmental and Earth Resources Images Compared / Future Satellite Systems
5. Thermal Infrared Images
Thermal Processes and Properties / IR Detection and Imaging Technology / Characteristics of IR Images / Conducting Airborne IR Surveys / Land Use and Land Cover—Ann Arbor, Michigan / Heat-Loss Surveys / Indio Hills, California / Imler Road Area, California / Western Transvaal, South Africa / Mauna Loa, Hawaii / Satellite Thermal IR Images / Thermal IR Spectra / Thermal IR Multispectral Scanner
6. Radar Technology and Terrain Interactions
Radar Systems / Characteristics of Radar Images / Radar Return and Image Signatures / Polarization / Interferometry
7. Satellite Radar Systems and Images
Seasat / SIR-A Mission / SIR-A Images of Tropical Terrain, Indonesia / Radar Interaction with Vegetated Terrain / SIR-A Images of Desert Terrain, Eastern Sahara / Radar Interaction with Sand-Covered Terrain / Land Use and Land Cover, Imperial Valley, California / SIR-B Mission / SIR-C Mission / JERS-1 / ERS-1 / Almaz-1 / Radarsat / Magellan Mission to Venus
8. Digital Image Processing
Structure of Digital Images / Image-Processing Overview / Image Restoration / Image Enhancement / Information Extraction / Hardware and Software for Image Processing
9. Meteorologic, Oceanographic, and Environmental Applications
UV Radiation and Ozone Concentration / Climate and Weather / Ocean Productivity / Ocean Currents / Sea Ice / Bathymetry / Environmental Pollution
10. Oil Exploration
Exploration Programs / Sudan Project / Papua New Guinea Project / Central Arabian Arch Project / Oil Exploration Research / Other Energy Resources
11. Mineral Exploration
Regional Lineaments and Ore Deposits of Nevada / Regional Lineaments and Ore Deposits of South Africa and Australia / Local Fractures and Ore Deposits / Mapping Hydrothermally Altered Rocks / Goldfield Mining District, Nevada / Porphyry Copper Deposits / Collahausi Mining District, Chile / Borate Minerals, Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia / Additional Mineral Exploration Projects / Hyperspectral Scanners for Mineral Exploration / Strategy for Mineral Exploration / Mineral Exploration in Covered Terrain
12. Land Use and Land Cover: Geographic Information Systems
Need to Classify Land Use and Land Cover / Multilevel Classification System / Multilevel Classification System of the Los Angeles Region / Digital Classification of Land Use, Las Vegas, Nevada / Interpreting Land Use and Changes in Phoenix, Arizona / Vegetation Mapping with AVHRR Images / Geographic Information Systems / Archaeology
13. Natural Hazards
Earthquakes / Landslides / Land Subsidence / Volcanoes / Floods / Forest and Range Fires
14. Comparing Image Types: Summary
Death Valley / Summary
Created 15 November 2005, Last Update 20 January 2009
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