The course will be Tuesday and Thursday from 11: 10 am to 12:25 pm in the Burchfiel Geography Building

We will have lab on Wednesdays from 2:30 - 4:25 p.m. with a second section of lab possible with demand. Lectures will cover theory and applications and labs will focus on image processing with applications.

We will cover processing of optical data such as Landsat and LIDAR as well as RADAR data such as NEXTMap USA 5-m IFSAR. This section of the course aims at developing your technical skills in remote sensing and we will discuss such issues as image classification which applies to habitat mapping for flora and fauna, urban, geology, and geomorphology, particularly geomorphometrics (a mouthful). Image texture analysis for delineating insect mounds and Kangaroo rat burrows…etc, and analysis of lidar & radar data for calculating height, biomass, and carbon density of deserts, grasslands, shrublands, savannas, woodlands, and forests.

I hope to see you there.

Kindest regards,

Robert A. Washington-Allen

1. Assistant Professor of Geography

2. Environmental Tomography Laboratory

3. Applied Biodiversity Science-IGERT Affiliated Professor:http://biodiversity.tamu.edu/

4. NSF-Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU): Ecohydrology of Tropical Cloud Forests Faculty Mentor

Department of Geography

University of Tennessee

304 Burchfiel Geography Building

1000 Phillip Fulmer Way

Knoxville, TN 37996-0925

Cell: 979-571-4330

e-mail: washingtonra@utk.edu

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