Remote Sensing

Required Readings, Spring 2006

Readings 1: Due Friday, 7 April

• Lowe, 2000, The image-concious internet. Geospatial Solutions, October issue. pp. 40 - 44.
• Hoffer, ??, Biological and physical considerations in applying computer-aided analysis techniques to remote sensor data. Chapter 5 of Remote Sensing: The Quantitative Approach. pp. 227 - 286.

Readings 2: Due Friday, 14 April

• Gourlay, R., 1998, Airborne versus space scanners. GIS User, February-April, pp. 33 - 37.
• Fowler, R., 1999, Digital Orthophoto concepts and applications: a primer for effective use. GeoWorld, July, pp. 42 - 46.
• Satellite Imagery - History through the keyhole. Geospatial Solutions. Feb 2003.

Readings 3: Due Friday, 21 April

• Completion of the 1990s national land cover data set for the conterminours united states from Landsta TM data and ancillary data souces. PE&RS, June 2001, pp. 650 - 661.
• Stoney, W., 2000, Satellite Land Imaging and the public good. PE&RS, March issue, pp. 253 - -255.
• ONLINE: Revamping NASA, Mapping a path to other worlds. Geospatial Solutions. Feb. 2004.

Readings 4: Due Friday, 28 April

• Keech, M., 1990, Remote sensing applied to ecological degredation. Chemistry and Industry, May issue. pp. 296 - 298.
• Foody, 2001, Monitoring the magnitude of land-cover change around the southern limits of the sahara. PE&RS, July issue, pp. 841-847

Readings 5: Due Friday, 5 May

• Chen, Zeng, and Xie, 2000, Remote sensing and GIS for urban growth analysis in China. PE&RS, May issue, pp. 593-598.
• Anderson, Fischer, and Deloach, 1999, Remote sensing and precision agriculture: ready for harvest or still maturing? PE&RS, October issue, pp. 1118 - 11123.
• Price, Crooks, and Martino, 2001, Grasslands across time and scale: a remote sensing perspective. PE&RS, April issue, pp. 414 - 419.

Readings 6: Due Friday, 12 May

• Weber and Dunno, 2001, Riparian vegetation mapping and image processing techniques, Hopi Indian Reservation, Arizona, PE&RS, February issue, pp. 179 - 186
• Tappan, Hadj, Wod, and Lietzow, 2000, Use of Argon, Corona, and Landsat imagery to assess 30 years of land resource changes in west-central Senegal, PE&RS, June issue, pp. 727 - 735

Readings 7: Due Friday, 19 May

• Eiumnoh and Shrestha, 2000, Application of DEM data to landsat image classification: evaluation in a tropical wet-dry landscape of Thailand, PE&RS, March issue, pp. 297 - 303.
• Mennis and Fountain, 2001, A spatio-temporal GIS database for monitoring alpine glacier change. PE&RS, august issue, pp. 967-975.

Readings 8: Due Friday, 26 May

• Taylor, G., 1998, Hymap - the flying mineralogist. GIS User, October-November issue. pp. 35 - 37.
• Garono, R. and K. McFall, 2001, Spawning hyperspectral to save salmon. Geospatial Solutions, April issue. pp. 28 - 34.
• 2001, Lawer altimetry: from science to commercial lidar mapping. PE&RS, November issue, pp. 1209-1217.
• ONLINE: Critical Habitat on the Lower Columbia River. Geospatial Solutions. November, 2003.

Writeup format

For EACH paper, do the following:
1. Outline the paper (in outline format)
2. Summarise the main points of the article (at least one paragraph, depending on the complexity of the paper) and how the info in the article might relate to other papers, lectures, other readings, your own experience, etc… In other words, show that you have thought about the article, not just outlined it.

Note: to be accepted, the writeups MUST be typed. They are due by 5:00 PM on the due date. Late writeups will NOT be accepted.

Grading: Each set of readings will be worth 2% of your final grade.

Also note: information pulled from the readings will be on the midterm and final exams.