Remote Sensing:
Analysis of Remotely-Sensed Entities
I - Energy Source
Solar Energy
Electromagnetic Energy
II- Energy’s Interaction with the Earth’s Atmosphere
II A -- Path Length
II B -- Scattering
II C -- Atmospheric Absorption
Why is the sky blue?*
Energy Interactions with Earth
Spectral Reflectance
Sun-Object-Sensor Relationship
PPT Slide
Color Additive Process
Why do plants appear green?
Spectral Signatures
Color Subtractive Process
Raster Data Structures
“False Color” Imaging
Color-IR Imaging
Resolution of Remotely-Sensed Data
A -- Spatial Resolution
C -- Radiometric Resolution
Planned Land Data Satellites
Digital Image Processing
Geometric and Exposure-Related Corrections
Image Classification (1 of 7)
Image Classification (2 of 7)
Supervised Image Classification (3 of 7)
Supervised Image Classification (4 of 7)
Supervised Image Classification (5 of 7)
Unsupervised Image Classification (6 of 7)
Unsupervised Image Classification (7 of 7)
GIS Integration
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