MRED 416 REMOTE SENSING

Basic principles, earth surveying systems, photographic nad detection systems; multispectral digital satellite images and spectral analysis, LANDSAT, SPOT, MOS, Ikonos, QuickBird, ASTER etc. images, thermal images, RADAR, independent and biased classification, introduction to photogrammetric capture, satellite image processing; applications in detecting and pointing down minerals etc; unmanned imaging systems.

Laboratory (computer based) exercises: electromagnetic radiation (separation ability, paths, solar constant, spectral initiation ability); earth usage and aerophotography; stereoscopic vision; SPOT and Landsat satellites; remote sensing satellite orbits and images; educational image analysis software BILKO; infrared images; Radar images, distinction ability, Rayleigh coefficients.