This cross-listed undergraduate and graduate course covers the basic theory and mechanics of remote sensing and image processing for environmental applications. We also discuss the history of how we gained the capacity to observe Earth conducting her business in real time, how these observations are applied to contemporary environmental and social issues, and how to use this satellite information to measure, map, and monitor the planet.
Advanced Remote Sensing - Digital Image Processing (GEOG 436/537)
This cross-listed undergraduate and graduate course covers the advanced application of terrestrial remote sensing mostly focused on forested ecosystems. Students use different multi-sensor remote sensing data, such as MODIS, Landsat, LiDAR, Imaging Spectroscopy, and Thermal images in the class. In addition, students would learn about how these various remotely sensing images can be used in monitoring of vegetation phenology, deforestation, land use and land cover (LULC) changes, succession, vegetation productivity and evapotranspiration across different scales in space and time.
Ecohydrology (GEOG 467/567)
This undergraduate and graduate cross-listed course introduces basic principles and concepts in forest ecohydrology, focusing on modeling perspectives. In this class, we will examine processes and feedback between water, carbon, and nitrogen fluxes at the watershed scale in application to water resources and forest management, and examines the control of hydroclimate, vegetation change, and disturbance regimes on hydrological and biogeochemical processes in forested ecosystems.
GIS & Environmental Analyses (GEOG 439/639)
This undergraduate and graduate cross-listed course introduces raster data processing especially focusing on terrain analyses using digital elevation model (DEM) regarding Water Resources. The course covers (1) LiDAR processing, (2) basic terrain analyses (slope, aspect, curvature, and hillshade etc.), (3) hydrologic terrain analyses (flow routing, stream network analyses, and watershed delineation etc.), and (4) Hydrologic hazards mapping, such as floodplain and landslide etc.