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451-413 Remote Sensing Principles and Applications | |
Availability | Credit cannot be gained for both this subject and 451-312, 451-412 or 451-415 |
Credit Points | 7.1 |
Coordinator | Dr J.H. Leach |
Semester | 1 |
Contact | 24 hours of lectures and 12 hours of tutorial/practical classes |
Subject Description | The objective of this subject is to present the acquisition, processing and use of remotely sensed data and their application to the solution of resource management problems. Principles of remote sensing; photographic and non-photographic sensors; airborne and space platforms; fundamentals of analogue and digital image analysis; image correction and enhancement; introduction to classification of images. Use of image processing systems. High level digital image processing, correction and classification; applications of remote sensing in the geosciences, engineering, and resource assessment and inventory; image data in geographic information systems. Project based use of image processing systems. |
Assessment | Not more than three hours of written examinations and tests, and not more than the equivalent of 20 pages of written assignments and reports on practical work. The relative weighting of the assessment components will be published at the commencement of the subject |
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