Course Syllabus

Date 

Topic

Reading

Homework

Lecturer

WEEK 1

Download and install MATLAB

Matlab Installation instructions

Python Installation Instructions (Anaconda)

LAB 0

29MAR

Introduction to course,  labs, term papers
Overview of remote sensing

Rees 1.1-1.4 
Appendix

 

Sandwell/ Fricker

31MAR

Fricker/Bryant/ Sandwell

02APR

Platforms and orbits
Use of color in RS

Rees 10.1-10.4
notes on orbits

HW1

Sandwell

WEEK 2

MATLAB basics, plotting

LAB 1

05APR

Electromagnetic radiation, polarization

Rees 2.1-2.2 
EM Summary

Fricker

07APR

Fricker/Bryant/Sandwell

09APR

GPS and the Ionosphere
Fourier transform introduction 

Rees 2.3

HW2

Sandwell

WEEK 3

1-D and 2-D Fourier transforms

LAB 2

12APR

Spectra and Fourier transforms 
Diffraction 

Rees. 2.7
notes on Fourier

 Sandwell

14APR

 Sandwell/Bryant/Fricker

16APR 

Thermal radiation

Rees. 2.5-2.6 
notes on radiation

HW3

Fricker

WEEK 4

 Data Types

  

LAB 3

19APR 


Propagation, dispersion, and scattering

Rees 3.1, 3.3, 3.5

 

 Fricker

21APR

 Fricker/Bryant/Sandwell

23APR 

Image processing - 1

Surface scattering

Rees 11.1-11.2

HW4

 Fricker/Sandwell

WEEK 5

Image Processing

LAB 4

26APR

Surface scattering

Image Processing - 2 

 

Fricker/Sandwell

28APR

Optics Rees 5.1-5.3   HW5

Sandwell

30APR

Stereo

Rees 11.3-11.4

Sandwell

WEEK 6

  

03MAY

Image classification
Machine learning

Rees 11.3-11.4

Term Paper - Part 1 Due
(grad students)

 

05MAY

Review and go over HW 1-5

Introduce Lab

Practice Midterm

07MAY 

Midterm

 

WEEK 7

Google Earth Engine LAB 5

10MAY 

Passive microwave systems and applications 

Rees 7.1-7.4


  

Fricker

12MAY

Fricker/Bryant

14MAY

Radar and laser altimetry

 Rees  8.1 - 8.3

HW6

Fricker

 WEEK 8

 Image Classification

LAB 6

17MAY 

Scattering and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)

Rees 9.1 - 9.3

Term Paper - Part 2 Due
(grad students) 

Sandwell

19MAY

Sandwell/Bryant

21MAY 

Radar Interferometry

Rees 9.4-9.5 

HW7

Sandwell

WEEK 9

Laser and Radar Altimetry



LAB 7

24MAY 

Earthquakes and Volcanoes 



Sandwell or Xu

26MAY

Remote sensing of the cryosphere:

Fricker or Bryant

28MAY

Grad. Student Presentations 

 WEEK 10

Radar Interferometry

 

LAB 8 (optional)

31MAY

Holiday

02JUN


Grad. Student 
Presentations

04JUN

Grad. Student Presentations 
Review for Final Exam

LAST DAY TO TURN IN ALL HOMEWORK AND LABS

09JUN 

Final Exam 
11:30 - 1:30 PM

The final exam will include questions from the graduate student presentations.  The exam will have questions from the entire course.

Term Paper - Part 3 Due (grad students)