Course No.: CE 472
Course Title: Principles of Remote
sensing
Instructor: Dr. R.P.
Singh, WLE 202
House No.: 425
Tel.: 7295 (Off.), 8201 (Res.)
E-mail: ramesh@iitk.ac.in
Course content:
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What is Remote sensing?
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Need of Remote Sensing
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Earth, Ocean, Atmosphere and Cryosphere
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Basic Principles of Remote Sensing
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Platforms and sensors
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Electromagnetic waves: Sources and
Generation
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Remote sensing data
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Spectral and Spatial Resolutions
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Types of Sensors
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Image Processing
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Applications to Earth, Ocean, Atmosphere
and Crysophere
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Geographical Information System
(GIS)
Weightage:
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Quiz
15%
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Term Paper
20%
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I Mid Semester Exam
15%
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II Mid Semester Exam
15%
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End Semester
35%
Books:
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Basic Principles by Curran, P.
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Remote Sensing and Image Interpretation,
John Wiley and Sons by Lillesand and Kiefer
Term Paper:
Each student has to write a term
paper based on remote sensing data acquistion, data analysis or literature
review and they have to make power point presentation of their term paper
for 20 minutes. The term paper has to be written in the form of a research
paper consists of following heads:
Title, Author, Address, Abstract,
Introduction, Methodology, Results and Discussion, Conclusions and References
Journals:
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