Information:
Module Outline & Information - powerpoint
& handout.
Semester 1 - Earth Observation:
Lecture handouts:
To access all of the distance
learning materials for this semester navigate to the Nathan Bodington Geog2750 site
from the Bodington Common log-in page.
You can access the entire reading list for this semester from the library Geog2750
reading list.
Lecture 1: Introduction to environmental Earth observation - handout.
Lecture 2: Electromagnetic radiation interactions with the Earth's surface - handout.
Lecture 3: Recording the reflectance of the Earth's surface - handout.
Lecture 4: Radiometric, atmospheric & geometric processing - handout.
Lecture 5: Estimating Earth surface properties - handout.
Lecture 6: Classifying the terrestrial environment - handout.
Lecture 7: Principles of microwave Earth observation - handout.
Lecture 8: Understanding Earth observed microwave images - handout.
Lecture 9: Earth observed digital surface models - handout.
Lecture 10: The role of Earth observation in environmental GIS - handout.
Practical Handouts and Data Sets:
Practical 1: Introduction to working with Earth observed images in Imagine. Practical
Handout and dataset.
Practical 2: Further core ERDAS Imagine functionality. Practical
Handout.
Practical 3 and Assignment 1: Atmospherically correcting Landsat TM images. Practical
Handout and Assignment
Answer Sheet.
Set Wednesday 20th October, Deadline Wednesday 27th October.
Practical 4 and Assignment 2: Evalauting the use of NDVI to derive
vegetation status - Practical
Handout and Assignment
Answer Sheet. Practical dataset wir12345_savi_dn.img.
Set Wednesday 27th October, Deadline Wednesday 3rd November.
Practical 5 and Assignment 3: Producing a Land Cover Classification of a Landsat 5 Thematic Mapper Image.
Practical
Handout and Assignment
Answer Sheet.
Set Wednesday 3rd November, Deadline Friday 12th November.
Practical 6: Registration of Landsat 5 Thematic Mapper Data and ERS2 SAR Images.
- Practical
Handout and dataset.
Practical 7 and Assignment 4: Interpreting and explaining ERS2 SAR backscatter response.
Practical
Handout and Assignment
Answer Sheet.
Set Wednesday 24th November, Deadline Wednesday 1st December.
Practical 8 and Assignment 5: Correcting a LiDAR DSM to obtain an estimated DEM.
Practical
Handout, Assignment
Answer Sheet and dataset.
Set Wednesday 1st December, Deadline Wednesday 8th December.
Semester 2 - GIS:
Lecture Powerpoint Presentations:
Note, some of the
lecture Powerpoint presentations are extremely large (10s of Megabytes) due to
the large number of images they include. You may find it easier to view these
directly from the links below, rather than trying to save them to your ISS
workspace.
Lecture 11: Introduction to GIS for environmental applications - powerpoint
& handout.
Lecture
12: Spatial & temporal variability and environmental data - powerpoint
& handout.
Lecture
13: Error and uncertainty - powerpoint
& handout.
Lecture
14: Interpolation of environmental data - powerpoint
& handout.
Lecture
15: Principles of grid-based modelling - powerpoint
& handout.
Lecture
16: Terrain modelling: the basics - powerpoint
& handout.
Lecture
17: Terrain modelling: applications - powerpoint
& handout.
Lecture
18: Hydrological modelling - powerpoint
& handout.
Lecture
19: Environmental assessment - powerpoint
& handout.
Lecture
20: Making decisions - powerpoint
& handout.
Practical Handouts & Data Sets:
Practical 11:
Spatial variability in environmental data - Practical
Handout and dataset
and Digimap
handout.
Practical 12: Using Digimap to access OS data products and
Assignment 6 - Practical
Handout and Assignment
Answer Sheet. Set Monday 31st January, Deadline Thurday 10th
February.
Practical 13: Error in off-the-shelf datasets - Practical
Handout and dataset.
Practical
14: and Assignment 7: Interpolating surface from point data and Assignment 7 -
Practical
Handout and Assignment
Answer Sheet and dataset.
Set Monday 14th February, Deadline Thursday 24th February.
Practical 15:
Cartographic modelling - land capability assessment - Practical
Handout and
land capability handout and dataset.
Practical
16: Using DEMs for glacial geomorphology and Assignment 8 - Practical
Handout and Assignment
Answer Sheet and data-set.
Set Monday 28th February, Deadline Thursday 17th March.
Practical 17: Visibility
assessment - Practical
Handout and dataset.
Practical 18 and Assignment 9: Hydrological modelling - Practical
Handout and Assignment
Answer Sheet and dataset.
Set Monday 18th April, Deadline Thursday 28th April.
Practical 19: MCE for
environmental assessment - Practical
Handout and dataset.
Practical 20 and Assignment 10: Siting radioactive waste disposal facilities
using web-based SDSS - Practical
Handout and Assignment
Answer Sheet. Set Monday 2nd May, Deadline Thursday 12th May.
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