Advanced Remote Sensing (GEOG 408)

Instructors: Guangxing Wang, Ph.D.

Email: [email protected]
Phone: (618) 453-6017
Office: 4442 Faner Hall
Office hours: M& W 9:00am-11:00am, F 2:00 – 4:00pm or drop by anytime
Lecture hours: T 2:00 -3:50 in Faner 2533
Lab hours: R 2:00 -3:50 in Faner 2524

Prerequisite: 406 or consent

Course introduction and objectives

“Advanced Remote Sensing" (GEOG 408) focuses on theories and applications of
digital image processing and provides students with knowledge and skills of advanced
digital image processing and analysis techniques. This course will include:
• Collection of various remotely sensed data
• Hardware and software for digital image processing
• Statistical analysis of remotely sensed data
• Image display and visualization
• Geometric and radiometric corrections
• Image enhancement
• Pattern recognition (classification) and change detection
• Hyperspectral image analysis
• Data analysis of active microwave and Lidar
• Image aided environmental modeling including global carbon cycling
• Product accuracy assessment and remote sensing in 21st Century

In addition to lectures, lab work will let students do hands-on exercises and gain skills
to enhance their proficiency in a widely used image analysis software – ERDAS Imagine.
The students who successfully complete this course will have a basic understanding of
advanced digital image processing and analysis, develop competency in use of ERDAS
Imagine, and obtain skills for problem solutions of natural and environmental resources.

Textbooks and references

• John R. Jensen. 2005. Introductory Digital Image processing: A Remote Sensing
Perspective, 3rd edition, Pearson Prentice Hall. Required for lectures.
• ERDAS Imagine Tour Guide and Field Guide (provided by instructor and
teaching assistant). Required for labs.
• Thomas M. Lillesand, Ralph W. Kiefer, and Jonathan W. Chipman. 2007. Remote
Sensing and Image Interpretation, 4th edition. Optional.
• John R. Jensen. 2006. Remote Sensing of the Environment: An Earth Resource
Perspective. 2nd Edition. Prentice Hall. Optional.
 • John A. Richards, and Xiuping Jia. 2005. Remote Sensing Digital Image Analysis:
An Introduction. Optional.
• Robert A. Schowengerdt. 2006. Remote sensing: models and methods for image
processing. 3rd. Optional.

Important journals
• Remote Sensing of Environment
• ASPRS Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing
• IEEE Geosciences and Remote Sensing
• International Journal of Remote Sensing

Important websites
ERDAS, Inc.: http://gis.leica-geosystems.com/
ENVI: http://www.rsinc.com/envi/
eCognition: http://www.definiens-imaging.com/ecognition/index.htm
NASA http://www.nasa.gov/
NASA Earth Observatory: http://www.earthobservatory.nasa.gov/
NASA Earth Science Enterprise: http://science.hq.nasa.gov/
NASA GSFC Landsat program: http://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/
NASA Remote Sensing Tutorial: http://www.fas.org/irp/imint/docs/rst/
Global Land Cover Facility: http://glcfapp.umiacs.umd.edu:8080/esdi/index.jsp
Landsat Data Continuity Mission: http://ldcm.gsfc.nasa.gov/
MODIS http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/
Terra ASTER: http://asterweb.jpl.nasa.gov/
USGS Landsat 7: http://landsat7.usgs.gov/
EROS Data Center: http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov
ASPRS homepage: http://www.asprs.org/

Grading
Participation and attendance 10 %
Midterm Exam 25 %
Lab work and assignments 30 %
Project 10 %
Final Examination 25 %
Total 100%

Grading Scale
90 - 100% - A
80 - 89% - B
70 - 79% - C
60 - 69% - D
0 - 59% - F

Comments
This course will provide the students with theories and methods of advanced
digital image processing and analysis techniques. Students are expected to attend class
(both lecture and laboratory) regularly and to take exams. Learning by doing is very
critical for you to learn the knowledge and skills from this course. The labs designed will
provide students with hands-on exercises in digital image processing techniques and
assist students to understand the techniques. ERDAS Imagine is the primary software in
the lab and used to implement and practice a variety of digital image processing. We will
perform the lab work in the Spatial Environmental Analysis Laboratory (SEAL) located in
Faner 2524. The laboratory component plus project of this course is weighted heavily
and therefore it is good for you to spend as much time as necessary in this lab. For group
projects, equally participating is required. It is vital that students complete the exercises
on time because very often the next exercise is related to the previous one.
We welcome you to this course offered by the Department of Geography and
Environmental Resources. This course strictly adheres to the conditions established in the
SIUC Student Conduct Code: http://www.siuc.edu/~policies/policies/conduct.html. Acts
of academic dishonesty include: 1. Plagiarism, representing the work of another as one's
own work; 2. Preparing work for another that is to be used as that person's own work; 3.
Cheating by any method or means; 4. Knowingly and willfully falsifying or
manufacturing scientific or educational data and representing the same to be the result of
scientific or scholarly experiment or research; 5. Knowingly furnishing false information
to a university official relative to academic matters; 6. Soliciting, aiding, abetting,
concealing, or attempting acts of academic dishonesty. These activities will not be
tolerated. Violations will result in failure of the assignment or failure of the entire course.

Emergency Procedures:
Southern Illinois University Carbondale is committed to providing a safe and
healthy environment for study and work. Because some health and safety circumstances
are beyond our control, we ask that you become familiar with the SIUC Emergency
Response Plan and Building Emergency Response Team (BERT) program. Emergency
response information is available on posters in buildings on campus, available on the
BERT'S website at www.bert.siu.edu, Department of Public Safety's website
www.d~s.siu.edu( disaster drop down) and in the Emergency Response Guidelines
pamphlet. Know how to respond to each type of emergency.
Instructors will provide guidance and direction to students in the classroom in the
event of an emergency affecting your location. It is important that you follow these
instructions and stay with your instructor during an evacuation or sheltering
emergency. The Building Emergency Response Team will provide assistance to your
instructor in evacuating the building or sheltering within the facility.

Tentative schedule for lectures

Geog 408 Lecture hours: T 2:00 -3:50 in Faner 2533
Week Topic Reading
1 Jan. 15 Course overview and introduction Jensen Chapter 1
to digital image processing
2Jan. 22 Various remote sensing data Jensen Chapter 2

3 Jan. 29 Various remote sensing data Jensen Chapters 2&3

(continue), hardware and software
considerations for digital image
 processing
4 Feb. 5 Statistical analysis of remotely sensed Jensen Chapter 4
data
5 Feb. 12 Image display and visualization Jensen Chapter 5

6 Feb. 19 Image geometric and radiometric Jensen Chapters 6&7

corrections
7 Feb. 26 Image enhancement Jensen Chapter 8

8 Mar. 4 Midterm exam

9 Mar. 11 Spring break
10 Mar. 18 Pattern recognition – classification Jensen Chapter 9
algorithms
11 Mar. 25 Artificial intelligence for digital Jensen Chapter 10
image processing and analysis
12 Apr. 1 Hyperspectral image analysis, Jensen Chapter 11 and handouts
active microwave and Lidar data
analysis
13 Apr. 8 Digital change detection Jensen Chapter 12
14 Apr. 15 Image aided environmental handouts
modeling including global carbon
cycling
15 Apr. 22 Product accuracy assessment and Jensen Chapter 13 and handouts
Remote Sensing in 21st Century
16 Apr. 29 Project presentation of Lab 12
17 May 6 Final exam