ENV 440 - Remote Sensing of the Environment

Prerequisites, ENV 111, ENV 111L, or ENV 112. Students are introduced how to utilize remotely sensed data to its full potential and how to extract useful information from satellite data. The main emphasis of this course is to shed the light on the physical principals of remote sensing and how to apply to different application topics like remote sensing of vegetation, water, soils, minerals, geomorphology and urban landscaping. Image processing techniques and data manipulation will be also introduced to this class. (Offered fall semester, alternate years.) 3 credits