Schedule

please note this is a tentative schedule and we might need to make minor changes

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