Assignment 1 - Getting Started with GIS
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Using the geospatial technology of satellite imagery, this hands-on course will investigate land-cover patterns of the physical and social environmental spatially and over time using remote sensing applications for analysis along with geographic information systems (GIS). The Geography Department has listed the following as its desired outcomes for students, who upon the completion of GEOG 1700 should be able to:
- Determine what the roles are of natural disaster mitigation at a federal and local governmental level, community level, and individual.
- Describe basic physics concepts on which remote sensing is based upon.
- Perform basic remote workflows to solve problems (such as acquiring data, feature extraction, change detection, pre- and post-processing, create composite images, and image classification.
- Interpret, analyze, and summarize results in a remote sensing workflow.
- Discover how to select appropriate data sets for remote sensing applications based on spectral, temporal, radiometric, and spatial resolution.
- Compare the characteristics of passive and active remote sensing systems.
- Discover the variety of ways remote sensing is used in society along with future trends.
