ESRM 430: Remote Sensing of the Environment
Schedule
please note this is a tentative schedule and we might need to make minor changes
Contents
Week 0 – The 1/2 week at start of autumn quarter
- We will have a get to know activity and non-graded assignment, as well as introduction to the Canvas tools and site.
Week 1 – Principles of remote sensing & hyperspatial image analysis
- Supplemental Reading: Campbell & Wynne Chapters 1, 5 and 10, Chambers et al. 2007, Tatem et al. 2008, Adams et al. 2004, Melesse at al. 2007
- Lab 1: Image interpretation & validation of aerial & satellite imagery
Week 2 – High resolution imagery, georeferencing, & spatial portals
- Research examples using aerial photography and high resolution imagery
- Supplemental Reading: Campbell & Wynne Chapters 3 and 4, de Leeuw et al. 2011, Gordon 2005
- Lab 2: Importing aerial photography & temporal analysis in Google Earth
- Lab 1 and Annotated Bibliography 1 Due.
Week 3 – Examples of remote sensing & image measurements & calculations
- Image measurements & calculations
- Supplemental Readings: Campbell & Wynne Chapters 9, 13, 16 and 17; Franklin et al. 2000
- Lab 3: Working with hard copy & digital aerial photography
- Lab 2 and Annotated Bibliography 2 Due.
Week 4 – Examples cont’d & image analysis, manipulation & segmentation
- Quick Refresher on Remote Sensing Fundamentals
- Image analysis, manipulation & segmentation
- Supplemental Readings: Campbell & Wynne Chapters 20 and 21; Moskal and Franklin 2004
- Lab 4: Digital image analysis
- Lab 3 and Annotated Bibliography 3 Due
Week 5 – Midterm
- Untimed midterm, you can take it multiple times and have one week to complete
- Lab 5: Introduction to computer aided image segmentation
- Lab 4 and Annotated Bibliography 4 Due
Week 6 – Accuracy assessment & historical change detection
- Supplemental Readings: Campbell & Wynne Chapter 14; Sullivan et al. 2009
- Lab 6: Historical change detection & accuracy assessment
- Midterm, Lab 5, and Annotated Bibliography 5 Due
Week 7 – Pattern recognition, image segmentation & PhoDAR
- Supplemental Readings: Campbell & Wynne Chapters 11 and 12; Moskal et al. 2011; Myint et al. 2011
- Lab 7: Structure from motion (SfM) & creating 3D point clouds from photographs
- Lab 6 and Annotated Bibliography 6 Due
Week 8 – LiDAR Part I
- Active Remote Sensing
- Aerial and Terrestrial LiDAR
- Supplemental Readings: Campbell & Wynne Chapter 7; Vaughn et al. 2011; Erdody and Moskal 2010; Zheng and Moskal 2009; Richardson et al. 2009; Moskal et al. 2009; Kato et al. 2009
- Lab 8: Introduction to LiDAR analysis
- Lab 7 and Annotated Bibliography 7 Due
Week 9 – LiDAR Part II
- LiDAR Applications
- Supplemental Reading: Campbell & Wynne Chapter 8; Moskal and Zheng 2012
- Lab 9 – LiDAR Data Analysis and GIS Integration
- Lab 8 and Annotated Bibliography 8 Due
Week 10 – New developments in remote sensing
- Supplemental Readings: Campbell & Wynne Chapter 15; Moskal 2005
- Lab 10 Final project assigned (synthesis of past labs)
- Lab 9 and Annotated Bibliography 9 Due