GEOG 4570/5570

Who should take?

If you are interested in:

- Landscape mapping

- Environmental change detection

- Ecosystem monitoring

What can I achieve?

Some examples demonstrating what you can achieve after the completion of this course. Please check below on some student project cases.

- Track the growth of a city and changes in farmland over several year

- Map large forest fires or grassland disturbance

- Are water bodies shrinking over decades?

What will be covered:

This course introduces the principles and practices of photo interpretation and remote sensing primarily for use in environmental monitoring. Prerequisite is Intro GIS (Courses offered at UNT: GEOG 3500 as undergraduate level course, and GEOG 5510 GIS for Applied Research as graduate level course) or equivalent courses. The course will emphasize on hands-on practices. Topics will include: backgrounds of image acquisition and photo interpretation, introduction to airborne and common satellite systems, image enhancement, information extraction from thematic images, post-classification accuracy assessment and landscape change detection will be covered. This course can be counted as a required Special Topics course towards the GIS certificate. Please check the 2019 syllabus for more details.