This course will meet weekly for 2 hours for lectures, discussions, and labs at the Center for Earth Observation (CEO) at ESC 119. Hours will be determined at the first organizatioal meeting on September 1.
There will be five advanced topic modules during the semester. Each topic will feature a lecture the first week and a student led discussion, or advanced lecture, the following week. There will be lab exercises for each module. Students will also complete a course project of their own design.
Students are encouraged to use the CEO facilities to integrate aspects of this course into their own research projects.
| Date | Speaker | Topic | Lab |
| 1 Sept. | Ron Smith | Organizational meeting | Introduction to CEO facilities and various remote sensing programs |
| 8 Sept. | Ron Smith | Review of satellite sensor data formats, sources, and characteristics | Locate and obtain various types of satellite images |
| 15 Sept. | Students | Project proposals (oral) | ...continue with data type lab |
| 22 Sept. | Ron Smith | Converting digital numbers to physical properties | Convert DNs to surface reflectance and brightness/temperature, haze correction, etc. |
| 29 Sept. | Crystal Schaaf Boston University |
Physics of BRDF and MODIS product development and use | ...continue with physical properties lab |
| 6 Oct. | John Rogan Clark University |
Advanced change detection techniques | Application and comparison of change detection methods |
| 13 Oct. | Students | Student discussion on change detection | ...continue with change detection lab |
| 20 Oct. | Students | Project Report | Student project work |
| 27 Oct. | Roland Geerken | Time series analysis | Explore techniques for analyzing multi-temporal data |
| 3 Nov. | Students | Student discussion on time series analysis | ...continue with time series lab |
| 10 Nov. | Smith, Geerken, Bonneau | Hyperspectral analysis | Techniques for processing and analyzing hyperspectral images |
| 17 Nov. | Students | Student discussion on hyperspectral anaysis | ...continue with hyperspectral lab |
| 24 Nov. | - | Thanksgiving Recess | |
| 1 Dec. | - | Review project issues | Work on course projects |
| 8 Dec. | Students | Final project presentations |
29 November 2005