Dr. Thomas D. Frank
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Instructor:
Dr. Tom Frank
Department
of Geography
Director,
Spatial Data Analysis Lab
Phone:
244-9028
Office:
216
Introduction
to Remote Sensing has an Inquiry Learning format, focused on student-centered
exploration, building on your natural interests. Inquiry Learning allows
students to discover course goals and objectives through their own exploration
of environmental problems with lab assignments rather than exams.
Lab
assignments: I will provide a lab exercise for about the first half of the
semester that addresses a traditional application of remote sensing to an
environmental issue. Each student will create a PowerPoint presentation for
each lab to demonstrate your ability to complete the tasks assigned.
Lab
assignments are to be finished by December 6th
I WILL NOT contact you to find out where the
assignments are located. If they are not done by December 10th , you
will not receive credit for them.
Individual
Project: Each student will develop an individual research or applications
project during the latter part of the semester. Each student will be required
to locate and download remote sensing imagery for the project, import the
imagery into Leica Geosystems Erdas Imagine software and ArcGIS, perform
analysis, and prepare a PowerPoint presentation summarizing the goals,
objectives, data sources, data analysis, and results of the project.
Grade
will be based on satisfactory completion of assigned labs and individual
project.
The
objective of this course is to emphasize the theory, conepts, principles and
vocabulary of remote sensing, and to support that material with a wide variety
of lab assignments. This course will give you an understanding of modern
space-based remote sensing systems that can be used to inventory and monitor
environmental processes. The software you learn in the lab exercises (Erdas
Imagine) will give you the experience necessary to work in the remote sensing
industry (commercial or government). This is the first in a sequence of
courses, with Geography 478 following in the Spring semester. In addition to
remote sensing, I suggest that you also enroll in the other GIScience courses:
cartography (Geog 373), geographic information systems (geog 379 and 479), and
GIS Applications to Environmental Problems (Geog 476). This core of GIScience
courses provide the state-of-the-art resources to address many of today’s
pressing environmental problems.
No class Tuesday September 4th and Thursday September 9th
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