Instructor: Dr. Saurabh Das (Course co-ordinator)

                   Dr. Abhirup Datta

 

Text Book:

  1. W. G. Rees, Physical Principles of Remote Sensing
  2. R. Jensen, Remote Sensing of the Environment: An Earth Resource Perspective
  3. Principles of remote sensing : an introductory textbook. http://www.itc.nl/library/papers_2009/general/PrinciplesRemoteSensing.pdf

 

Distribution of Marks:

MSE (20%), ESE (40%) Class Evaluation (15%) Class Project (25%)

 

Week

 

Weekly Lab Topic

Aug. 9 - 13

 

History and development, State of art, EM Waves in free space

No Lab - Tour of internet sources on remote sensing data

Aug. 16 - 20

 

Sources of Energy; EM wave interaction with atmosphere and Earth surface

 

Lab 1: Data collection and exploration

Aug. 23 - 27

 

Data  Acquisition Platforms, Passive electro-mechanical system

Lab 3: Analysis of EM wave interaction with atmosphere

Aug 30 – Sept 3

 

Visualization, radiometric correction, Elementary image processing and geometric operations

Lab 4: Elementary Image processing- Enhancement of contrast and filtering

Sept. 6 - 10

 

Visual data interpretation and Digital Image analysis

Lab 5: Visual image interpretation and Digital image analysis

Sept. 13 - 17

(AD)

Electromagnetic Radiation, Fundamentals of Radiometry, Microwave Remote Sensors

Lab 6: Microwave Lab

Sept. 20 - 24

Midterm Break

(no lectures)

Sept. 27 – Oct. 1

Oct. 4 - 8

 (AD)

Principles of Radar –Resolution, Range, Angular Measurements,  Antenna, ST/MST radar

Lab 7: Antenna: Rx and Tx modes

Oct. 11 – 15

(SD)

LIDAR Remote Sensing, Applications and Satellite Missions in Land Surface study

 

Lab 8: Digital Image analysis.

Oct. 18 – 22

(SD)

Applications and Satellite Missions: Case studies in earth and atmosphere

Work on project time.

Oct. 25 - 29

(AD)

Microwave Remote Sensing: Active and Passive Systems, Advantages, Platforms and Sensors, Microwave Radiation and  Simulation.

Work on project time.

Nov. 1- 5

(AD)

Imaging RADAR, Synthetic Aperture RADAR, PolSAR, Differential InSAR, RADAR Interferometry

Work on project time.

Nov. 8-12

Applications and Satellite Missions: Case studies in astronomy and planetary studies

Work on project time.

Nov. 15-19

 

Final Project Presentation

No lab

Nov.

22-30

End Semester Examination

(no lectures)

 

 

 

Tentative Class projects:

 

  1. Change detection study using Landsat images
  2. Ground water study using Sentinel Satellite
  3. Doppler radar study of Polar precipitation
  4. GPM/cloudsat study of tropical precipitation
  5. NISAR Mission: Specifications, Goals and Impacts
  6. ST/MST RADARs in India: Specifications, Goals, Results, Future Directions.