EV2501 - Introduction to Environmental Remote Sensing
| Credit points: | 03 |
| Year: | 2009 |
| Student Contribution Band: | Band 2 |
| Administered by: | Discipline of Environmental Sciences |
Introduction to the principles of electromagnetic radiation and the physics of solar energy and earth environment interactions. Basic principles of aerial photographic interpretation, and of image analysis in a raster GIS environment. Applications of remote sensing to the mapping and monitoring of terrestrial and marine environments in North Queensland.
Learning Outcomes
- to introduce participants to the use and interpretation of primary sources of geographic information; analogue and digital approaches to image analysis; and image analysis in a raster GIS environment.
Graduate Qualities
- The ability to adapt knowledge to new situations;
- The ability to define and to solve problems in at least one discipline area;
- The ability to select and use appropriate IT tools;
- The ability to access and employ online technologies effectively.
| Inadmissible Subject Combinations: | EV5500 |
Availabilities | |
| Cairns, Block, Study Period 7 | |
| Census Date 10-Jul-2009 | |
| Face to face teaching 06-Jul-2009 to 17-Jul-2009 | |
| Coordinator: | Professor David Gillieson |
| Lecturer: | Mr Les Searle. |
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| Assessment: | assignments. |
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