Advanced Remote Sensing

This course will teach students advanced image processing and analysis. This will include aerial, hyperspectral, LiDAR, and SAR imagery at minimum. Students will learn how to select and prepare scenes alongside orthorectification and the necessary correction given the unique challenges that each type of geospatial imagery provides. Students will also learn how to determine the accuracy of this processing. After successful image processing, the course will cover image classification, essential indices, change detection analysis, and, time permitting, object detection will be covered for each imagery source. Students will also learn how to fuse this geospatial data with other data from multiple sources to make multimodal data products in areas of interest. This course would help students master the skills in the Remote Sensing & Imagery Analysis competency area (Raabe and Stumpf, 2-14). The prerequisites for this course are DS 430 and DS 431.