Environmental Remote Sensing ERS-186

Winter 2005

Link to ERS186L - Spring 2004

Course instructors:

Vern Vanderbilt: vern@cstars.ucdavis.edu

TA – Quinn Hart: qjhart@ucdavis.edu

Course listserv:

ers186-w05@ucdavis.edu

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Grading: 1st Midterm (20%), 2nd Midterm (30%) and Final (50%)

We will distribute practice questions before each exam – a certain number of the practice questions will be WORD FOR WORD the same as the exam!

Office hours TR, 9:00 to 10:00 am; location: PES 1137

Basic Text: Jensen, J. R. 2000. Remote Sensing of the Environment: An Earth Resource Perspective. Prentice-Hall, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ.

COURSE OUTLINE

1. Introduction

2. Principles of Electromagnetic Radiation

3. Remote sensing technology and terminology

4. Scaling up in remote sensing

· Atoms and Molecules; Geology

· Microscopic particles; Atmospheric Science, Climatology, Hydrology and Soil Science

· Cells; Agriculture and Ecology

· Plant structure; Agriculture and Ecology

· Mixed pixels; Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecology; Urban Landscapes

5. Field methodology and spatial analysis

6. Temporal image analysis and change detection

7. CSTARS guest lectures

Lecture Notes :- Subject to Change

Date	Topic	Powerpoint	Pdf	Study Questions	Suggested Reading
Jan 6^th, Thu	Wave-Particle Physics I	Lecture 1: 15.8 mb	slides, handouts	Lecture 1
Jan 11^th, Tue	Wave-Particle Physics II	Lecture 2: 4.7 mb	slides, handouts	Lecture 2	Chapter 2
Jan 13^th, Thu	Remote Sensing Terminology/ENVI Lab	Lecture.ppt	slides, handouts	Lecture 3	Chapter 1,7,8
Jan 18^th, Tue	Indices and Classification/ ENVI Lab	Lecture.ppt	slides, handouts	Lecture 4
Jan 20^th, Thu	Radiance Review and Calibration / ENVI Lab	Lecture.ppt	slides, handouts	Lecture 2	Chapter 2
Jan 25^th, Tue	Passive Sensors	Lecture 4: 29.5 mb	slides, handouts		Chapter 9
Jan 27^th, Thu	Midterm Exam 1 (40points)	2005 Exam w/ans		Exam 1 2004 Exam
Feb 1^st, Tue	Active Sensors	Lecture 5: 3.2 mb Lecture 5 (supp)	0.8 mb	Lecture 5	Chapter 9
Feb 3^rd, Thu	Remote Sensing in Geology	Lecture 6: 4.2 mb	0.5 mb	Lecture 6	Chapter 13(479-483)
Feb 8^th, Tue	Remote Sensing of Water	Lecture 7a:2.3 mb Lecture 7b: 6.5 mb	0.5 mb 1.1 mb	Water_1	Chapter 2(41-44),11
Feb 10^th, Thu	Remote Sensing of Water (cont)	Lecture 7c: 7.1 mb	2.6 mb	Water_2
Feb 15^th, Tue	Remote Sensing of Soil	Lecture 8: 2.8 mb	0.9 mb	Soils	Chapter 13(471-479)
Feb 17^th, Thu	Remote Sensing of Vegetation	Lecture 9a: 3.3 mb	1.3 mb	Vegetation_1	Chapter 10
Feb 22^nd, Tue	Midterm Exam 2 (60 points)		StudyQ	2004 Exam w/ ans
Feb 24^th, Thu	Remote Sensing of Vegetation (cont)	Lecture 9b: 3.2 mb	1.1 mb
Mar 1^st, Tue	Remote Sensing of Vegetation (cont)	Lecture 9c: 1. mb
Mar 3^rd, Thu	Species Discrimination using RS	Lecture 10: 1.2 mb	0.4 mb
Mar 8^th, Tue	Continuous & Nominal Variables	Lecture 11: 1.2 mb	0.4 mb
Mar 10^th, Thu	Continuous & Nominal Variables (cont)
Mar 15^th, Tue	Classification Techniques	Lecture 12: 6.5 mb	0.6 mb
Mar 15^th, Tue	Review Session
Mar 17^th, Thu	Final Exam (100 points) @ 1:30 pm	Study Questions	pdf