FUNDAMENTS OF OPTICAL REMOTE SENSING

Slides: https://eo4geocourses.github.io/UNIBAS_Remote-Sensing-Environment/

Abstract

This course contains the basic elements of Earth observation from space, dealing with the basic physical principles, technologies and methodologies used. The main objective of the course is to provide students with the foundations for studying the processes and environmental parameters with space technologies.

Table of Contents

1. em radiation and radiometric measurements
2. Blackbody Radiation
3. Rayleigh-Jeans approssimation
4. Wien's Law
5. Matter/Radiation interaction
6. Kirchoff Law
7. Matter/Radiation interaction in the visible range
8. Spectral measurements, spectral signatures of soil, water, vegetation
9. Interpretation of vegetations spectral signatures
10. NDVI index
11. Atomic Spectroscopy
12. Basic principles of multi-spectral remote sensing;
13. From ground to space: sensor acquisition and digital image formation, EO sensors
14. Natural sources of radiation for EO: the Sun and the Earth
15. Passive and Active Earth Observing Techniques
16. Interaction between radiation and atmosphere
17. Chemical-physical properties of atmosphere
18. Scattering in the atmosphere
19. Extinction of solar radiation in the atmosphere
20. Atmospheric transmittance and atmospheric windows
21. Penetration of e.m. radiation into the matter
22. A Remote Sensing application: sediments or shallow water?
23. Cloud detection