Lectures will be a combination of Powerpoint presentations and whiteboard derivations. In most cases, Powerpoint slides will be posted here as PDF files after the class.
In-class handouts will also typically be posted here.
These summaries and notes are not a substitute for attending lectures!
Class Notes
8/17/2015 – Lecture 1 (Course overview; sample of remote sensing applications Part 1)
8/19/2015 – Lecture 2 (Intro to remote sensing; sample of remote sensing applications Part 2)
8/24/2015 – Lecture 3 (Electromagnetic waves, photon energy, spectral windows, blackbody radiation)
8/26/2015 – Lecture 4 (Emissivity, Kirchhoff’s law, solid angle, dielectric constants)
9/9/2015 – Lecture 5 (Dispersion, refraction, Fresnel’s law, scattering, Beer’s law)
9/14/2015 – Lecture 6 (Camera performance specifications, imaging modes, detectors, field of view and resolution; Meridiani Planum scattering properties)
9/16/2015 – Lecture 7 (CCD imaging)
9/21/2015 – Student Presentations (Applications of surface scattering properties)
9/23/2015 – Lecture 8 (Visible/near-IR reflectance spectroscopy: electronic absorptions, H2O vibrations)
9/28/2015 – Lecture 9 (Visible/near-IR reflectance spectroscopy: water on Mars, sulfate/carbonate/organic vibrations, vegetation)
9/30/2015 – Lecture 10 (VNIR reflectance: multi- vs. hyperspectral)
10/5/2015 – Lab 1 (Introduction to ENVI and image manipulation)
10/7/2015 – Lab 2 (Basics of image and spectral analysis)
10/14/2015 – Lecture 11 (Diffraction gratings for spectroscopy; atmospheric correction, continuous spectral mapping)
10/19/2015 – Lab 3 (Spectral libraries, atmospheric correction)
10/21/2015 – Lecture 12 (Spectral classification, principal components analysis, decorrelation stretches; review for midterm)
10/26/2015 – Midterm Exam
10/28/2015 – Lecture 13 (Thermal infrared spectroscopy: temperature and emissivity from thermal radiance; thermal inertia)
11/2/2015 – Guest Lecture (Prof. Brian Gunter)
11/4/2015 – Guest Lecture (Prof. Carol Paty)
11/9/2015 – Lab 4 (Thermal IR, Radar)
11/11/2015 – Guest Lecture (Prof. Andy Newman)
11/16/2015 – Lecture 14 (Radar: Intro; effects of slopes, roughness, and dielectric properties)
11/18/2015 – Lecture 15 (Radar polarimetry, Lidar, and planetary examples)
11/23/2015 – Lecture 16 (Gamma-ray, neutron, and X-ray spectroscopy)
11/30/2015 – Term project presentations
12/2/2015 – Term project presentations