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Physical Geography: Remote Sensing - Digital Methods

Programme overview

  • Master level course, Part time 50%
  • Code: NGEN09
  • 7.5 credits
  • Lund Campus
  • Study period: 25 Mar 2013 – 09 Jun 2013

Course contents:

· Fundamental physical principles and terminology for electromagnetic radiation, and its interaction with different media (air, water, land, vegetation etc.)
· Overview of remote sensing satellites and their orbits, common remote sensing systems and their technical principles, properties, and data formats.
· Data management from raw data to geometrically and radiometrically corrected imagery.
· Image processing methods within remote sensing, including e.g. image enhancement, data compression, image transformation, and basic classification methods. · Integration of field data with remotely sensed data for classification and accuracy evaluation.
· Thematic mapping with remote sensing data.

More information can be found at http://www.nateko.lu.se/ngen09

This programme/course is currently closed for applications