Dr. Robert R. Herrick - Geos 492/692 - Fundamentals of Planetary Remote Sensing

Geos 492/692 - Fundamentals of Planetary Remote Sensing

Instructors: Buck Sharpton and Robbie Herrick

Grading:

15% Homework

60% Three tests (including noncumulative final taken during regular final exam time)

25% Term paper

Graduate students will receive extra take-home essay questions on each test.

Term paper requirements:

Each student will write a term paper that describes the design and operation of an existing remote sensing instrument and give two case studies of scientific use of the data from that instrument. The term paper should be consistent with AGU guidelines for a scientific manuscript (see http://www.agu.org/pubs/au_contrib_rev.html). The text body should be 10-12 double-spaced, one-inch margin, 12-point font, pages for undergraduates, 15-18 pages for graduate students (length does not include abstract, references, figures, etc.). There should be a minimum of 10 references from peer-reviewed journals. Web sites and popular magazines are not acceptable as references.

<>For up to an additional 10% credit for the course, the student may write an appendix to the term paper that proposes a new, tenable, and significant use of the instrument for scientific research.

Schedule

Jan. 20 1 Introduction/History

PDF of Lecture 1

Jan. 25-27 1-2 Properties of EMR, radiometry introduction

PDF of Lectures 2 & 3

Feb. 1-3 3 Photographic imaging, photogrammetry, etc.

R. H. notes on photogrammetry, photoclinometry

powerpoint of photography, etc, or as pdf

reading on photogrammetry with MOC

reading on photoclinometry

<>Feb. 8-10 4 Orbits, satellite orbits

<>Satellite orbits lecture (PDF - J. Chappelow)