EV3506 - Remote Sensing

Credit points:	03
Year:	2012
Student Contribution Band:	Band 2
Administered by:	Sch of Earth & Environmental Sciences

If you are training to become a town planner, an environmental scientist, a geographer, a geologist, a marine scientist, a biologist, a natural resource manager, this subject is for you. Become a leader in your field and learn how to generate your own spatial data instead of relying on old and often irrelevant information sources. The science of remote sensing is advancing rapidly as sophisticated sensors obtain data with increasingly detailed spatial, spectral, temporal resolution. This has resulted in our ability to extract quantitative, biophysical data (eg temperature, rainfall, biomass, vegetation cover, rock types and mineral composition, urban features). Such information is becoming increasingly important in many professions. This subject focuses on the application of airborne and satellite remote sensing to terrestrial environments for resource inventory, monitoring and environmental problem solving. The theory and practice of relevant image interpretation and digital image analysis techniques are covered through practical and project work.

Learning Outcomes

• master a wide range of skills encountered in GIS practice;
• have a sound basis to the underlying theory of remote sensing;
• have an awareness of the scientific applications of remotely-sensed;
• use data and analytical techniques to address specific environmental problems.

Graduate Qualities

• The ability to deploy critically evaluated information to practical ends;
• The ability to select and organise information and to communicate it accurately, cogently, coherently, creatively and ethically.

Assumed Knowledge:	a basic understanding of geography and GIS
Inadmissible Subject Combinations:	EV5506

Availabilities
Cairns, Limited, Study Period 10
Census Date 13-Dec-2012
Non-standard start/end 10-Sep-2012 to 04-Jan-2013
Face to face teaching 18-Nov-2012 to 22-Nov-2012
Coordinator:	Dr Marc LeBlanc
Lecturers:	Professor David Gillieson, Dr Marc LeBlanc, Dr James Moloney.
Contact hours:	28 hours lectures 28 hours tutorials
Assessment:	end of semester exam (50%); quizzes or tests (25%); assignments (25%).

Note: Minor variations might occur due to the continuous Subject quality improvement process, and in case of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest official information.