6.5 Mr R D Spencer. Forest Inventory. Second semester 18 hours of lectures and 18 hours of practical work. On completion of this subject, students should have: an enhanced knowledge of the principles of digital remote sensing and the characteristics of different sensors; the ability to specify requirements for remotely sensed digital data to meet specific inventory objectives; the ability to interpret digital image data and perform simple image enhancement and classification procedures for evaluating land-cover and related resource characteristics; an understanding of the roles and methods for applying digital remotely sensed data and geographic information systems in natural resource inventories. Thermal, microwave, and multispectral sensing; earth resources satellites; characteristics of digital image data; image registration and enhancement; supervised and unsupervised image classification; image interpretation; components and functions of geographic information systems; technical and managerial requirements for implementing digital remote sensing and geographic information systems in natural-resource inventories. One 2-hour examination; written assignments and practical reports. The weighting of different assessment components will be notified at the commencement of the course. Burrough P. A. Principles of Geographic Information Systmes for lNad Resources Assessment Clarendon Press, 1986 Harrison BA and Jupp JDL Introduction to image processing 1990 CSIRO