118982 Remote sensing in forest resource management in Forestry and Environmental Sciences LM-73 BARBATI Anna
(syllabus)
What is remote sensing and what is it used for? -Optical Image Formation Process: at-Sensor Radiance and Reflectance -Spectral response of main land cover classes -Vegetation indices
Type of remotely sensed data -Satellite, airborne and drone platforms -Multispectral and hyperspectral sensors Resolution -Image data preprocessing by data providers
Geodata handling and image data pre-processing in GIS -Field work: acquisition of reference data -Data preprocessing: image data enhancement -Creating a geographic database: digitizing and managing coordinate systems
Remote sensing data applications to forest resource mapping -Introduction to digital image processing techniques -Photointerpretation for land cover and forest type mapping -Automated classification of satellite images -Forest change detection
(reference books)
- Franklin SE (2001). Remote Sensing for Sustainable Forest Management. CRC Press, Taylor and Francis - Remote Sensing and Image Interpretation (2015)- T.M. Lillesand, R.W. Kiefer, J.W. Chipman, Wiley International Edition
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