Remote Sensing -- GEOG526

This class is in VERY rough shape and was transferred to this website so that eventually I can get around to formatting it into a workable class. Don’t expect to find much of worth here for a while yet.

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Instructor: Jim Coll
Office: 404C Lindley Hall
Email: jcoll@ku.edu
Office Hours: day from time-time & day from time-time or by appointment

Class Meetings: Monday 2:00 — 4:30 pm
Class Room: Lindley 228

Labs: Wednesday or Thursday 11:00 — 12:50 pm
Lab Room: Lindley 310

Announcements and mics:

Hello all!
My name is Jim Coll and I am your instructor for the semester. A few notes for you pertain to how I run this course. Although the KU blackboard site will be the “official” site for this class and the place you submit all work to, I use this site here for the benefit of all and my own selfish desire to streamline my digital footprint. I will keep both sites as identical as possible when double posting material (e.g. the syllabus and course schedule), but in case of a conflict treat this version as the most recent. Use the navigation table to the left to find the syllabus, labs, and other documents. I have made myself as available to you as I can so feel free to find me via:

  • Email
  • Class slack channel
  • Cornering me in the hallway

Below you’ll find the course outline and slides as appropriate. I look forward to an exciting, productive, and stimulating semester with you all.
Best,
Jim

Tentative Course Outline:

To help us stay on track, I have pinned the semester schedule below with the relevant tasks, due dates, and other important institutional dates: Note that this is a living timeline subject to change.
Date Topic Weekly Activity Due Lab University Dates
Week 1 8/20 Syllabus Day   Spatial skills pretest  
8/22 Remote sensing and its history    
Week 2 8/27 Remote sensing and its history Pt. 2   Online resources  
8/29 Electromagnetic Radiation Principles    
Week 3 9/3 Labor Day- No class   No Lab  
9/7 EMR Principles Pt. 2    
Week 4 9/10 Mapping cameras    EMR  
9/12 Digital imagery    
Week 5 9/17 Digital imagery   Basic computations  
9/19  Image Resolution    
Week 6 9/24  Image Resolution   Introduction to Erdas Imagine   
9/26  Image interpretation    
Week 7 10/1  Image interpretation   Understanding digital numbers  
10/3 Multispectral remote sensing    
Week 8 10/8 Exam Review   No Lab  
10/10 Exam 1    
Week 9 10/15 Fall Break-No class   Understanding resolutions  
10/17 Multispectral remote sensing    
Week 10 10/22 Hyperspectral remote sensing   Image interpretation  
10/24 Thermal, Microwave sensing    
Week 11 10/29 Digital image processing   Thermal infrared image interpretation  
10/31 Digital image processing    
Week 12 11/5 Image classification   Data acquisition & image preprocessing  
11/7 Image classification    
Week 13 11/12 Accuracy assessment   Image classification  
11/14 Change detection    
Week 14 11/19 Urban and vegetation   No Lab  
11/21 Thanksgiving -No class    
Week 15 11/26 Water and soil   NDVI  
11/28 Land cover mapping applications    
Week 16 12/3 Writing assignment   Spatial skills test  
12/5 Exam Review    
Finals 12/11 In person final