FOR 504: Advanced Methods in Remote Sensing
Lecture Information and pdf Download Site
Note: There is no reccomended book for this course. however, with respect to the analysis of hyperspectral data I reccomend the ENVI tutorials.
Schedule
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Week 1: January 9 to 13 |
| 11th |
Lecture 1: Course Outline and Introduction (no handout) |
| 13th |
Lecture 2: What you should know of Remote Sensing I - EMR (pdf) |
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Week 2: January 16 to 20 |
| 18th |
Lecture 3: What you should know of Remote Sensing II (pdf) |
| 20th |
Lecture 4: Assignment 1 due: Class Exercise and Discussion |
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Week 3: January 23 to 27 |
| 25th |
Lecture 5: Spectral Seperability (pdf) |
| 27th |
Lecture 6: Alternative Classification Methods (pdf) |
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Assignment 2 due |
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Week 4: Jan 30 to February 3 |
| 1st |
Lecture 6: Guest Lecture by Jeffery Evans on Data Fusion, US Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station (Moscow) |
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Lecture 7: Spectral Unmixing (pdf) |
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Assignment 3 due |
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Week 5: February 6 to 10 |
| 8th |
Lecture 8: Assignment 4 due: Class Exercise and Discussion |
| 10th |
No Class - Away at UMAC Annual meeting |
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Week 6: February 13 to 17 |
| 15th |
Lecture 9: Assignment 5 due: Class Exercise and Discussion |
| 17th |
Lecture 10: Introduction to Wavelet Analysis I (pdf) |
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Week 7: February 20 to 24 |
| 22nd |
Lecture 11: Introduction to Wavelet Analysis II (same as 10) |
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Lecture 12: Introduction to Wavelet Analysis III (same as 10) |
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Week 8: Feb 27th to March 3 |
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Lecture 13: Feature Detection with Wavelets (same as 10) |
| 3rd |
Lecture 14: Textural and Other Operator-based Analysis (pdf) |
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Assignment 6 due |
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Week 9: March 6 to 10 |
| 8th |
Lecture 15: Guest Lecture by Andrew T Hudak, US Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station (Moscow) |
| 10th |
Oral Midterm |
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Week 10: March 13 to 17 - Spring Recess |
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Week 11: March 20 to 24 |
| 22nd |
Lecture 16: Introduction to Lidar Remote Sensing Methods (pdf) |
| 24th |
Lecture 17: Guest Lecture by Jeffery Evans on Lidar, US Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station (Moscow) (pdf) |
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Week 12: March 27 to 31 |
| 29th |
Lecture 18: Guest lecture by Jefferey Evans on Quantative Connections between Landscape Ecology and Remote Sensing (pdf) |
| 31st |
Lecture 19: Hyperspectral Remote Sensing with HAMCAM by Peter Gorsevski (pdf) |
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Week 13: April 3 to 7 |
| 5th |
Lecture 21: Attend Geography Talk |
| 7th |
Lecture 22: Remote Sensing of the Area Affected by Fire: Surface and Image Properties (pdf) |
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Week 14: April 10 to 14 |
| 12th |
Lecture 23: Remote Sensing of Burn Severity (same as 22) |
| 14th |
Lecture 24: Remotely Measuring Fire Behavior (same as 22) |
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Week 15: April 17 to 21 |
| 19th |
Revision Session |
| 21st |
Oral Exam - CNR Room 11 |
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Week 16: April 24 to 28 - No Class |
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Monday 8th May: Class Paper Due |
Assignment Instructions
REFERENCE LIST
Lectures From last year that have moved to other courses:
- Scaling and Atmospheric Correction Techniques
- The Development of User-Defined Spectral Indices
For more information contact:
Dr. Alistair Smith
Department of Forest Resources
alistair@uidaho.edu
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