Principles of remote sensing

Principles of Remote Sensing course

Introduction

The materials provided after registration is a full introductory course to Remote Sensing with a 5 days duration and an estimated study load of 40 hours. The course consists of presentations, exercises including the open-source ILWIS software.

Objective

Participants learn the basics of a free Remote Sensing software, the spatial handling of imagery and image arithmetic, image classification and data manipulation and a glance on qualitative remote sensing.

Generic syllabus

The course contains the following topics:

Electromagnetic radiation (EMR) and Sensors
Remote Sensing system, Platforms and sensors.
Geometric aspects of imagery
Image visualization and enhancement
Visual interpretation of Remote Sensing Images
Image and tables arithmetic (in combination with practical)
Vegetation indexes (reading and calculation in combination with practical)
Digital image classification (in combination with practical)
Radiometric and atmospheric corrections (in combination with practical)

Distribution of the material for this training

All the material for theory and practicals are distributed in a single zip-file. Once opened 7 folders are created:

Folder 1 Material: containing the e-books relevant to the course
Folder 2 Software: ILWIS 3.3.1 academic version and patch to make the software free. Includes the installation instructions in a readme file. The software must be installed to solve all practicals.
Folder 3-7: material per day for the lectures/theory and the practicals.

	Description	Type
1	Objectives of RS course Document gives a detailed description of the objectives and the syllabus of the course.	pdf
2	Daily Programme The course is set-up in 5 sections; each section can be covered in plus minus 8 hours. The detailed daily programme is provided here.	pdf
3	Extractable file All files needed for the course including the software is provided here. (Take care the zip-file is 300 MB.)	zip

Description

Type

Objectives of RS course

Document gives a detailed description of the objectives and the syllabus of the course.

pdf

Daily Programme

The course is set-up in 5 sections; each section can be covered in plus minus 8 hours. The detailed daily programme is provided here.

pdf

Extractable file

All files needed for the course including the software is provided here. (Take care the zip-file is 300 MB.)

zip

After registration you will get access to all relevant materials.