Remote Sensing 101

Geology Seminar 285: Fall, 1998

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Table of Contents

Remote Sensing 101

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

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Color Additive Process

Why do plants appear green?

Spectral Signatures

Color Subtractive Process

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Raster Data Structures

“False Color” Imaging

Color-IR Imaging

Color-IR Imaging

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Resolution of Remotely-Sensed Data

A -- Spatial Resolution

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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

GIS Integration

Author: Paula Messina 

Email: pmessina@geosun1.sjsu.edu 

Home Page: http://geosun1.sjsu.edu/~pmessina/pmessina.html