Environmental Analysis through Remote
Sensing
Geography 5110/6110
Spring 2009
Time and
place: Wed. 8:35 - 11:35AM, OSH 215
and OSH 277
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: Julie Miller (jjaimoe@msn.com)
Office Hours: Wed. 11:40AM - 2:40PM, or
by appointment, OSH 109
Text: Introductory Digital Image Processing: A Remote
Sensing Perspective, John R. Jensen
(2005) 3rd edition.
Schedule:
|
Week |
Date |
Lecture |
Lab |
|
1 |
Jan 14 |
Review on principles of remote sensing (1) |
ENVI
Self Lab (Due Jan 28) |
|
2 |
Jan 21 |
Review on principles
of remote sensing (2) |
|
|
3 |
Jan 28 |
Contrast stretching, Density
slicing |
1 Guide
Assignment
(Due Feb 4) |
|
4 |
Feb 4 |
Dark subtraction, Band
ratios, Band math |
2 Guide
Assignment
(Due Feb 11) |
|
5 |
Feb 11 |
Image-to-map registration,
Image sharpening |
3 Guide
Assignment
(Due Feb 18) |
|
6 |
Feb 18 |
Texture filters,
Convolution filtering |
4 Guide
Assignment
(Due Feb 25) |
|
7 |
Feb 25 |
Principal and independent
component analyses |
5 Guide
Assignment
(Due Mar 4) |
|
8 |
Mar 4 |
Supervised classification
and post-classification |
6 Guide
Assignment
(Due Mar 11) |
|
9 |
Mar 11 |
Unsupervised classification
and post-classification |
7 Guide
Assignment
(Due Mar 25) Project
idea sheet (Due Mar 25) |
|
10 |
Mar 18 |
Spring Break |
|
|
11 |
Mar 25 |
Midterm Exam, Individual consultation on project |
|
|
|
Apr 1 |
Spectral mixture analysis |
8 Guide
Assignment
(Due Apr 8) |
|
12 |
Apr 8 |
Change detection, Accuracy
assessment |
9 Guide |
|
13 |
Apr 15 |
No lecture |
Project 1 |
|
14 |
Apr 22 |
Project 2 |
|
|
15 |
Apr 29 |
Project 3 |
|
Final Projects:
Important dates:
Mar 25: Due date of final
project idea sheet
April 8:
Due date of final project proposal
April 29 and TBA: Project presentation
TBA: Due date of final project paper
Data available:
1.
(geog5110 \library\ut_image\data\SLV_images)
ETM+: April, 28, 2000
TM: 1986, 1990, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999
MSS: 1979
SPOT: 1990, 1995
2.
(geog5110\library\ut_imagedata\GreatSaltLake\src_tm)
TM: 1984, 1987, 1990, 1993, 1996
3.
(geog5110/envidata/pc/park_city_sc0*.img)
AVIRIS: August 1998
4.
(geog5110/envidata/oquirrh/oquirrh_sc0*.img)
AVIRIS: August 1998
5.
(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/