ESCI 226 - Remote Sensing of Environmental Change

Semester Offered: Spring
0.5 unit(s)

(Same as GEOG 226) Remotely sensed imagery allows us to study major environmental questions such as sea ice extent, agricultural land uses, urban expansion, or deforestation. Understanding how to work with these data sources, such as Landsat or MODIS imagery, is an important part of learning geospatial analysis. This 6-week Intensive provides a short introduction to remotely sensed data and then focuses on an analytical project involving image acquisition, application of indices, and image classification and interpretation. We use ArcGIS Pro to practice different ways of using imagery for environmental questions. This Intensive complements GIS, Cartography, and other courses concerned with mapping and land change analysis. It has no prerequisites, but a willingness to explore new software and to help lead group work is important. Mary Cunningham.

First six-week course.

Two 75-minute periods.

Course Format: INT