Instructors: Buck Sharpton and Robbie Herrick
Grading:
15% Homework
60% Three tests (including noncumulative final taken during regular final exam time)
25% Term paper
Graduate students will receive extra take-home essay questions on each test.
Term paper requirements:
Each student will write a term paper that describes the design and operation of an existing remote sensing instrument and give two case studies of scientific use of the data from that instrument. The term paper should be consistent with AGU guidelines for a scientific manuscript (see http://www.agu.org/pubs/au_contrib_rev.html). The text body should be 10-12 double-spaced, one-inch margin, 12-point font, pages for undergraduates, 15-18 pages for graduate students (length does not include abstract, references, figures, etc.). There should be a minimum of 10 references from peer-reviewed journals. Web sites and popular magazines are not acceptable as references.
<>For up to an additional 10% credit for the course, the student may write an appendix to the term paper that proposes a new, tenable, and significant use of the instrument for scientific research.
Jan. 20 1 Introduction/History
PDF of Lecture 1
Jan. 25-27 1-2 Properties of EMR,
radiometry introduction
PDF of Lectures 2 & 3
Feb. 1-3 3 Photographic imaging, photogrammetry, etc.
R. H.
notes on photogrammetry, photoclinometry
powerpoint of photography, etc, or
as pdf
reading
on photogrammetry with MOC
reading
on photoclinometry
<>Satellite orbits
lecture
(PDF - J. Chappelow)
Homework #2 (pdf)
derivation of photogrammetric eqn. for HW
Feb. 15-17 5 μ wave systems
powerpoint of radiometry, ranging,
or as pdf
start of notes on radiometry
handwritten notes on radiometry and ranging
reading on non-SAR
portions of Magellan
Feb. 22-24 6 ranging systems
Homework 1 - 3 Answer Keys
Mar. 1-3 7 SAR systems
powerpoint of scattering systems,
or as pdf
notes on scattering systems
Test 1
Answer Key, or as pdf
Mar. 8-10 8 Interaction of matter
March 8 lecture
March 10 lecture
Mar. 15-17 9 Spring Break
Mar. 22-24 10 Interaction with matter
continued
March 22 lecture
March 24 lecture
Mar. 29-31 11 Interaction with atmospheres
Apr. 5-7 12 Interaction with atmospheres continued
Apr. 12-14 13 Electro-optical systems
Apr. 19-21 14 Electro-optical systems continued
Apr. 26-28 15 High energy remote sensing
May 3-5 16 Planetary applications
May 12, 8-10am Final Exam