ETE -- REMOTE SENSING

Session 1

Kathryn Keranen

1. Definition of Remote Sensing
2. Why are we doing remote sensing?ETE purpose
3. History of Remote Sensing
4. Characteristics of Remote Sensing Images
   • digital, rows, columns, pixels
   • 256 shades of gray
   • spectral
   • spatial, IFOV, resolution
   • temporal
   • radiometric
5. Remote Sensing Platforms used in ETE Modules
   • Korean Module -- DMSP
   • Weather Module -- GOES
   • Rift Valley Fever -- Landsat
   • Volcanoes -- SIR-C
6. Internet Search for Platforms (great use of Internet, Validity of Searches)
7. Student Activity
   • Name of Satellite
   • Country
   • Organization
   • Orbit
   • Spatial
   • Spectral
   • Temporal
   • Primary Purpose
8. Images and Image Processing Software -- NIH Image (designed to view x-rays)
9. Image Formats
10. Conversion Softwares -- Graphic Converter -- shareware
11. Downloading
12. Fundamentals of NIH Image
    • ETE module
    • Individual Investigations Lake Barcroft 1994 Landsat Image
13. Use of remote sensing imagery at TJHSST -- THe Lake Barcroft Project 1996, 1997
14. Explanation of Ground Cover Maps
15. Wheeling West Virginia -- landcover map -- Landsat
16. Ground Truthing

Session 2