GEOGRAPHY 324-V: Course Preview
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Welcome to the online version of Geography 324, Remote Sensing of the Environment.This course presents the basic technical and methodological skills needed to employ aerial photographs and various types of remotely sensed digital images as a source of qualitative and quantitative information in geography, forestry, urban planning, landscape architecture, park and recreation resource management, fish and wildlife management, crop and soil science, geology, and archeology. Most of the exercises will utilize airborne imagery (digitized aerial photographs, digital aerial images), but about one-third of the exercises will focus on analyzing digital satellite imagery. Nearly all exercises will be completed using a computer and most will involve specific GIS or Remote Sensing software. Students will be familiarized with images and applications involving a wide variety of environments – urban, rural, residential, industrial, agricultural, and forested to name a few. The main objectives of the course are to:
This course is a prerequisite for GEO 424, Advanced Remote Sensing, and other advanced remote sensing courses that provide reinforcement and mastery learning opportunities with a wider range of imagery, sensors, software, and methods. The current remote sensing curriculum in the Department of Geography at Michigan State University includes the following courses (listed in the preferred sequence of completion):
Dr. D. Lusch |