EES630 Climate Change - Extreme Events

Learning Objectives - This course provides an introduction to climatic phenomena and dynamics, the future climate change and its assessment. Introduction to extremes and the methods of analysis of extreme events and the assessment of the climate change impacts on extreme events and the adaptation and mitigation of climate change impacts. The course exposes students to climatology concepts and climate dynamics of the past, present and future, methods for the assessment of climate change, methods of analysis of extreme events, the impact of climate change, the adaptation and mitigation of climate change impacts on extreme events. 

EES336 Remote Sensing and GIS 

Learning Objectives - Satellite remote sensing is a powerful tool to acquire information about the surface of any object. Thus, the information obtained through satellite imagery can be used for geological mapping, monitoring of natural resources and climate and weather prediction. In this course, the theory of electromagnetic radiation, principles of spectroscopy, data acquisition systems will be discussed in details. Emphasis will be given on the different image processing techniques and preparation of digital maps from the satellite data. 

EES338 Remote Sensing and GIS Laboratory 

Learning Objectives - This course will cover the application of remote sensing and GIS in earth and environmental sciences. Students will learn to interpret and extract meaningful information from different earth observation satellites and aerial images. Students will be exposed to various machine learning algorithms and software packages for the processing of remote sensing images. 

EES441 Environmental Impact Assessment 

Learning Objectives - The objective of this course will be to make students familiar with the basics of environmental impact assessment (EIA) which includes scope and development of EIA, different terminology and step-by-step process for environmental impact assessment.