Environmental Analysis through Remote
Sensing
Geography 5110/6110
Spring 2008
Time and
place: Wed. 9:40AM - 12:40PM, OSH 215
and OSH 273
Instructor: Dr.
Richard R. Forster (rick.forster@geog.utah.edu)
Office Hours: Wed. 11:35 –1:00 PM and 3:00-5:00 PM, or by appointment,
Phone: 801-581-3611
Teaching
Assistant: Ryo Michishita (ryo.michishita@geog.utah.edu)
Office Hours: Wed. and Fri. 12:45 - 2:15PM,
or by appointment, OSH 109
Text: Introductory Digital Image Processing: A Remote
Sensing Perspective, John R. Jensen
(2005) 3rd edition.
Lecture
Slides:
1. Remote
sensing review (part 1)
2. Remote
sensing review (part 2) grey-scale
or color
3. Lecture
slides for lab#2 week
4. Lecture
slides for lab#3 week
5. Lecture
slides for lab#4 week
6. Lecture
slides for lab#5 week
7. Lecture
slides for lab#6 week
9. Lecture
slides for lab#7 week
ENVI Self Exercises:
Laboratories:
Jan
30: Lab 1
Density slicing,
contrast stretching, image sharpening
Feb
6: Lab 2
Dark subtraction,
image-to-map registration
Feb
13: Lab 3
Band ratios, band
math, convolution filtering
Feb
20: Lab 4
Texture filters, principal
component analysis
Feb
27: Lab 5
Supervised classification
and post-classification
March
5: Lab 6
Unsupervised
classification and post-classification
March
12: Review for midterm exam
----- Spring Break -----
March 26: Midterm exam
April
2: Lab 7
Change detection,
accuracy assessment, individual consultation on final
project
Guide
(No assignment)
April 9, 16: Labs for final project
(including individual consultation)
April 23: Project Presentation
Final Projects:
Important dates:
April 2: Due date of final project idea sheet
April 7: Due date of final project proposal
April 23: Project Presentation
TBA: Due date of final project paper
Data Available:
Salt Lake Valley:
(geog5110 \library\ut_image\data\SLV_images)
ETM+: April, 28, 2000
TM: 1986, 1990, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999
MSS: 1979
SPOT: 1990, 1995
Great Salt Lake:
(geog5110\library\ut_imagedata\GreatSaltLake\src_tm)
TM: 1984, 1987, 1990, 1993, 1996
Park City:
(geog5110/envidata/pc/park_city_sc0*.img)
AVIRIS: August 1998
Oquirrh Mountains:
(geog5110/envidata/oquirrh/oquirrh_sc0*.img)
AVIRIS: August 1998
United Kingdom:
(geog5110\library\ut_imagedata\UK)
TM: Summer/Winter scene late 1980s/early
1990s
Area Description: West edge of the scene is
Image Description: Georectified,
no atmospheric corrections, striping is present
Suggestions: Noticeable vegetation difference
between the seasons, winter image shows lots of geomorphology not interpretable
in the summer image
To Open image: The
image is in ERDAS Imagine 8.x format
Under File à Open External Image à IP Software à Erdas 8.x (.img)
*** Great Data Source for Utah ETM+
and ASTER Data:
Utah State University has an awesome online
data archive for ETM+ data. You can download data for basically the
entire states of
****** Global coverage of MSS (1970’s), TM (1990’s) and ETM+
(2000’s)
http://www.landsat.org/ortho/index.htm
Arizona State also has a good archive of
images for free. The website is http://aria.arizona.edu/
Possible Websites to Request Data From:
Kansas TM: http://gisdasc.kgs.ku.edu/
Sevilleta Long Term Ecological Research Project (New Mexico): http://sevilleta.unm.edu/data/archive/imagery/satellite/
Australian MODIS data: http://www.ga.gov.au/acres/prod_ser/modisprice.htm
You can purchase quite inexpensive data from
the following site http://edcimswww.cr.usgs.gov/pub/imswelcome/