ERS186: Environmental Remote Sensing

Course website: http://www.cstars.ucdavis.edu/classes/ers186-w03

We will post all lectures, additional reading material, links to relevant websites and other information on this site.

Course listserv: ers186-w03@ucdavis.edu

The course listserv is for general questions pertaining to the subject matter of the course. We will occasionally make announcements through this listserv, so check your email periodically! Everyone in the class who has registered should already be added to the listserv. If not, please contact Jonathan. Important note: refrain from posting personal questions on this listserv (e.g. “I think you made a mistake in grading my exam!”) Send those directly to Solomon or Jonathan.

Grading: one midterm (40%) and one final exam (60%), which will be cumulative.

Course textbook:

John R. Jensen (2000). Remote Sensing of the Environment: An Earth Resource Perspective, 1st Edition. Prentice Hall Series in Geographic Information Science, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 07458. About $90 (bookstore).

We are making three formats of the lectures available, the original PowerPoint format (without the movies), a web format (not really good for printing, but will have the movies), and a PDF format.

To view a PDF file, you need Adobe Acrobat installed. Click here to download it.

To view the Powerpoint format, if you don't have Powerpoint installed, you can get the free PowerPoint viewer. Windows users click here, MacOS 9.x and earlier click here, MacOS X users need to have the commercial version of Powerpoint (it comes with MS Office X) or Apple's new Keynote software.

Lecture Schedule (Note that the schedule can change):

Date	Subject (HTML)	Powerpoint Format	PDF Format	Instructor	Reading Assignment
1/7/03	Introduction; EMR Principles I	15.6 MB	3.4 MB	Greenberg & Dobrowski
1/9/03	EMR Principles II	4.6 MB	1.2 MB	Dobrowski	Chapter 2
1/14/03	EMR Principles II	4.6 MB	1.2 MB	Dobrowski	Chapter 2
1/16/03	Remote sensing technology and terminology I, Passive Sensors	7.6 MB	4.1 MB	Greenberg	Chapter 1,7,8
1/21/03	Remote sensing technology and terminology II, Active Sensors	5.6 MB	3.5 MB	Greenberg	Chapter 9
1/23/03	Light and atoms I; Geology	4.1 MB	2.3 MB	Greenberg	Chapter 13 (pp. 479-483); Clark (1999) Chapter
1/28/03	Light and microscopic particles I; Atmospheric Science, Climatology and Hydrology, Ice and Snow	14.7 MB	9.2 MB	Dobrowski	Chapter 2 (pp. 41-44), Chapter 11
1/30/03		14.7 MB	9.2 MB	Dobrowski	Chapter 2 (pp. 41-44), Chapter 11
2/4/03	Light and microscopic particles II; Soil Science	2.6 MB	0.8 MB	Greenberg	Chapter 13 (pp. 471-479)
2/6/03	Path Radiance	0.1 MB	0.1 MB	Dobrowski
2/11/03	Midterm (40%) (Answers click here!)	Practice midterm questions click here!	Practice midterm answers (1 - 25) click here!
2/13/03	Light and vegetation I; Plant cells	9.6 MB	6.0 MB	Dobrowski	Chapter 10
2/18/03	Light and vegetation I; Plant cells	9.6 MB	6.0 MB	Dobrowski	Chapter 10
2/20/03	Light and vegetation II; Species discrimination	1.6 MB	0.6 MB	Greenberg	Chapter 10
2/25/03	Light and vegetation III; Remote Sensing Process; Spectral unmixing; Classification	1.6 MB	0.9 MB	Greenberg	Chapter 1 (pp. 8-12); Verstraete et al. (1996) paper
2/27/03	Light and landscape structure: Ecosystems, biomass and LAI, forest structure, successional states	6.6 MB	1.7 MB	Greenberg	Chapter 9 (pp. 312-317, 326-329), Chapter 10
3/4/03	Change Detection	9.7 MB	1.7 MB	Greenberg	Chapter 10 (pp. 352-360, 370-373)
3/6/03	Field sampling methods, error, and limitations in remote sensing	1.7 MB	1.8 MB	Dobrowski
3/11/03		1.7 MB	1.8 MB	Dobrowski
3/13/03	CSTARS lectures* and exam review
3/18/03	Final exam (60%)	Jonathan's review questions and answers, click here!

* Guest speakers: James Goodman, Pablo Rosso, Hugh Stimson, Joshua Viers, Michael Whiting

Last updated Tuesday, January 11, 2005