Advanced Remote Sensing
GEOG 457/657 – Winter 2024
Location and hours
Tuesday 8:30-9:20 – Lecture (10-4072)
Tuesday 11:30-2:20 – Lab (GIS Lab 8-125)
Thursday 8:30-9:20 – Lecture (10-4072)
Overview
Remote Sensing is a longstanding tool that has seen massive expansion in recent years. With increases in computational power and the miniaturization of electronics, we’ve seen new and more powerful sensors in space, and we’ve seen costs go down. The applications are far ranging, e.g. scientific, military, and humanitarian. This course will cover advanced workflows and image processing techniques and aims to be a bridge between technology and research. Most of the labs involve coding in Google Earth Engine and R. By the end of the course students will have generated automatic timelapse animations in 3D, done advanced supervised machine learning, and analyzed time series imagery.
Undergraduate/graduate students
This is a split course. Requirements for this course will be higher for graduate students.
Office hours
Tuesday from 10:30-11:30 in the GIS Lab. Please stop by and say hello.
Grading
- 10 Labs (40%)
- Presentations (10%) Feb 6 & Mar 14
- Midterm exam (15%) Thu, Feb 15
- Final exam (15%) Tue, Mar 26
- Final project (20%) Thu, Mar 28
Required accounts
- Github https://github.com/
- Gmail https://www.google.com/gmail/about/
- Google Earth Engine https://code.earthengine.google.com/
Schedule
Important dates
- Tue, Feb 6&8 – Class presentations
- Tue, Feb 13 – Final assignment – Short proposal due
- Thu, Feb 15 – Mid Term
- Thu, Mar 5 – Final Assignment – Revised proposal due
- Tue, Mar 26 – Final exam
- Thu, Mar 28 – Field Trip – Drones
- Tue, Apr 2 – Final Assignment – Presentations
- Thu, Apr 4 – Final Assignment – Presentations
- Tue, Apr 9 – Final Assignment – Due