GS 830: Advanced Remote Sensing for Earth System Sciences

Syllabus​

Overview of  physics behind optical remote sensing and quantitative information retrieval from reflectance and emissive spectra- procedures in satellite data pre processing (radiometry, geometry and atmospheric corrections; dimensionality reduction; noise removal, etc.) –classification and thematic information extraction  – field techniques for measuring reflectance and emissivity of geologic materials – retrieval of quantitative geologic information from multispectral and hyper spectral images (VNIR,SWIR &TIR) – case studies for  application of remote sensing in geologic, oceanographic and atmospheric parameters retrieval.

Texts/References

  • Hawthorne, F.C., Spectroscopic methods in Mineralogy and Geology, Reviews in Mineralogy, Vol.18, Mineralogical Society of America, Washington, D.C., 1988
  • Chein-I Chang, Hyperspectral Imaging: Techniques for spectral detection and classification, Kluwer Academic publishers, NewYork, 2003
  • Varshney,P.K and Arora,M.K, Advanced image processing techniques for remotely sensed hyperspectral data, Springer, Berlin, 2004
  • Rencz, A.N., Remote Sensing for the Earth Sciences, Manual of Remote Sensing, Volume 3, 3rd Edn, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1999