{"id":2,"date":"2012-08-17T20:04:24","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T20:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wray.eas.gatech.edu\/remotesensing2015\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2015-08-18T03:17:59","modified_gmt":"2015-08-18T03:17:59","slug":"welcome","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wray.eas.gatech.edu\/remotesensing2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Remote Sensing of Earth &#038; Planetary Surfaces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This course will cover the broad spectrum of techniques for making remote measurements of the composition, morphology, and thermophysical properties of solid surfaces on Earth and other planetary bodies.  Both the physics underlying the techniques and their applications to a range of problems of interest will be discussed.  Students will gain experience accessing, processing and interpreting remote sensing data, and will acquire an understanding of which techniques are most useful for answering particular scientific questions about a range of land environments.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lectures:<\/strong><br \/>\nMW 3:05-4:25 PM @ ES&amp;T L1175<\/p>\n<p><strong>Instructor:<\/strong><br \/>\nJames Wray<br \/>\nES&amp;T Room 2234<br \/>\nOffice hours: TBA, or by appointment (Email: jwray@gatech.edu)<\/p>\n<p><strong>References:<\/strong><br \/>\nWeekly reading will be assigned from several remote sensing textbooks.  Additional references and links to online data sources are provided on the <a href=\"http:\/\/wray.eas.gatech.edu\/remotesensing2015\/resources\/\">Resources<\/a> page.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Course requirements:<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/wray.eas.gatech.edu\/remotesensing2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/artists-impression-of-smos.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wray.eas.gatech.edu\/remotesensing2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/artists-impression-of-smos-300x286.jpg\" alt=\"artists-impression-of-smos\" width=\"300\" height=\"286\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wray.eas.gatech.edu\/remotesensing2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/artists-impression-of-smos-300x286.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wray.eas.gatech.edu\/remotesensing2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/artists-impression-of-smos.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nHomeworks and labs:\t\t30%<br \/>\nExams (midterm and final):\t35%<br \/>\nFinal Project:\t\t\t30%<br \/>\nClass Participation:\t\t  5%<\/p>\n<p><strong>Topics to be covered<\/strong> (tentative)<br \/>\nElectromagnetic Spectrum Overview<br \/>\nRadiative Transfer<br \/>\nPhotometry<br \/>\nImaging Systems and Processing<br \/>\nVisible\/NIR Reflectance Spectroscopy<br \/>\nThermal IR Spectroscopy<br \/>\nThermal Inertia<br \/>\nRadar, Lidar<br \/>\nX-ray, \u03b3-ray Spectroscopy<br \/>\nNeutron Spectroscopy<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wray.eas.gatech.edu\/remotesensing2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Venus3d.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wray.eas.gatech.edu\/remotesensing2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Venus3d-300x227.gif\" alt=\"Venus3d\" width=\"300\" height=\"227\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-272\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This course will cover the broad spectrum of techniques for making remote measurements of the composition, morphology, and thermophysical properties of solid surfaces on Earth and other planetary bodies. Both the physics underlying the techniques and their applications to a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wray.eas.gatech.edu\/remotesensing2015\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"onecolumn-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wray.eas.gatech.edu\/remotesensing2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wray.eas.gatech.edu\/remotesensing2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wray.eas.gatech.edu\/remotesensing2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wray.eas.gatech.edu\/remotesensing2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wray.eas.gatech.edu\/remotesensing2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":35,"href":"https:\/\/wray.eas.gatech.edu\/remotesensing2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":339,"href":"https:\/\/wray.eas.gatech.edu\/remotesensing2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wray.eas.gatech.edu\/remotesensing2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}