GEO-SCI594Q Advanced Remote Sensing
3 cr, Fall 2009
SPIRE Catalog number: 39338
Course Location: Morrill IV South 271
Lecture Time: TuTh 9:30 - 10:45AM
Instructor: Dr. Qian Yu
Office: Morrill IV South 267
Office Telephone: 413-545-2095
EMAIL: qyu@geo.umass.edu
Office Hours: TuTh 11:00-12:00pm or by appointment
Purpose: To introduce the principles of image analysis for interpreting remotely sensed data for environmental, resource and urban studies. Emphasis will be given to the processing and information extraction from optical and thermal imagery.
Format: 60% lectures and class discussions, 40% seminars and class exercises. Take home exercises and lab practice will be assigned to students to get familiar with the concepts discussed in class.
Textbook:
Available in Textbook Annex
John R. Jensen, 2004. Introductory Digital Image Processing, 3rd Edition, Prentice Hall, New Jersey.
John A. Richards and Xiuping Jia, Remote Sensing Digital Image Analysis, Springer, 2006
Gong, Peng, Remote Sensing and Image Analysis, http://www.cnr.berkeley.edu/~gong/textbook/
Course Evaluation: Assignment 35%, Class Participation 20%, Project 45%
Lab software: ENVI 4.6
Topic: (tentative)