ESRM190: Digital Earth
Tentative Schedule
This course uses a flipped classroom mode of teaching, you will view lectures on your own time and have live interactions with the faculty on TBD (these will also be recorded).
- Module 1: Introduction the Digital Earth
- Topic: Introduction to the Digital Earth
- Concept: What is geospatial science?
- Tool: Interactive activity using the Windy app
- Demo: My story in Google Earth
- Assignment: Tell your story
- Module 2: Earth observation
- Topic: History of earth observation
- Concept: Spatial resolution
- Tool: Practice airphoto interpretation
- Demo: Airphoto interpretation – An example
- Assignment: Training your eye to interpret aerial imagery
- Module 3: How does remote sensing work? What are we actually sensing?
- Topic: What is remote sensing”
- Concept: Active vs. passive sensors
- Tool: Lidar
- Demo: Using remote sensing to identify geohazards
- Assignment: Identifying the geohazards in your story
- Module 4: Seeing beyond the visible
- Topic: Spectral reflectance
- Concept: Band combinations
- Tool: Landsat
- Demo: Analysis using Landsat satellite imagery
- Assignment: Seeing the world beyond the visible
- Module 5: An overview of all the tools we use for earth observation
- Topic: Overview of all remote sensing sensors
- Concept: Spectral and temporal resolution
- Tool: UAVs (aka drones) & digital aerial photogrammetry
- Demo: Live demo – TBD
- Assignment: Remote sensing in action!
- Module 6: How do you turn an image into a map?
- Topic: Classification
- Concept: Classified maps
- Tool: Object based image analysis
- Demo: How to use a classified map
- Assignment: Mapping your world
- Module 7: Remote sensing our changing world
- Topic: Change detection
- Concept: Temporal resolution
- Tool: Time series analysis
- Demo: Google earth
- Assignment: Analyzing your world
- Module 8: Big Data
- Topic: Overview of artificial intelligence (A.I.) and big data
- Concept: Machine learning, neural networks etc..
- Tool: Develop your own A.I. map
- Demo: Artificial intelligence
- Assignment: Introduction to Google Earth Engine
- Module 9: Putting it all together
- Topic: Using your geospatial toolkit
- Concept: Resolution domains
- Tool: Combining datasets together
- Demo: Examples of data fusion
- Final Project: Applying your geospatial toolkit
- Module 10:Future of geospatial science
- Topic: Careers in geospatial science
- Concept: New frontiers. Where is this field going?
- Tool: Other applications of geospatial technology
- Demo: Earth as Art
- Extra Credit: Discovering your motivation for remote sensing – Art &Tech