GEOG 4570/5570
Digital Image Processing and Analysis
Credits: 3 hours
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.
Selected Student Final Independent Project Presentations:
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Land Cover Changes in Denton County, Texas Between 1991 and 2016
By Melissa Wilkinson, Geog undergrad
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Identifying Large Woody Debris in the West Fork of the Trinity River
By Devin Taylor, Geog master student
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Measuring the Cerro Grande Fire
By Julie Winkler, Public Administration PhD student