This course will provide students with a broad overview of the utility and limitations of remote sensing in a number of applications and using several software packages. These skills are the foundation for subsequent incorporation of remotely sensed data into a GIS. Laboratory and field activities will focus on the applications of GIS technology as the medium for integrating and interpreting remotely sensed data of many kinds. Therefore, it provides students with the theoretical basis and practices needed to build and manage spatial databases and perform spatial analysis using database management systems (DBMS) and GIS tools. Moreover, it introduces the utility of remote sensing for a variety of applications and especially with the use of remotely sensed data in a geographic information system (GIS) for environmental changes and applications. Students will become experienced in using Erdas IMAGINE and ArcGIS software. Image data, such as Landsat and aerial photography that depict land cover, marine environments, and physical and cultural landscapes will be analyzed.
- Teacher: Vanum Govindu