Advanced Techniques in Remote Sensing (GEOS3811, GEOS9012)

The UNSW Advanced Techniques in Remote Sensing (GEOS3811) course and Remote Sensing Applications (GEOS9012) course is designed to refresh basic concepts and environmental applications of remote sensing. It concerns advanced techniques for data processing with a focus on land surface dynamics. The course introduces different platforms (satellites, planes, drones), sensors (photogrammetry, multispectral, radar) and analysis techniques (image segmentation and programming).

You’ll analyse Earth observation data across a variety of spatial resolutions and applications such as geography, ecology and geoscience. The course is conducted through a combination of lectures, computer laboratories and fieldwork.

By the end of the course, you’ll be able to:

• Understand various sensor systems and platforms for acquiring remotely sensed data, and their potential and limitations for environmental applications.
  
• Plan and conduct fieldwork necessary to validate remote sensing products.
• Demonstrate proficiency and conceptual understanding in using software to implement remote sensing techniques for data processing and analysis.
• Interpret, synthesise and apply that knowledge to produce new applied research in a selected thematic area (vegetation, land use, soils, geology, water resources).

Course attendance: In person

Level: 

• Postgraduate
• Undergraduate - Third year

Discipline: 

• Earth science
• Geography

Course code: GEOS3811, GEOS9012

Assumed knowledge includes Introduction to GIS and Remote Sensing (GEOS2821) or an equivalent course with related knowledge.

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