• Elements of interpretation.
• Interpretation strategies.
• Basic equipment.
• Scale in imagery.
• Land observation satellites.
• Applicational and technical concepts of the Landsat program.
• Applicational and technical concepts of the SPOT program.
• Other programs, e.g. India, Russia, China, Japan, European space agency.
• Thermal remote sensing.
• Thermal radiometry.
• Thermal properties of objects.
• Thermal image interpretation.
• Image resolution.
• Spectral differentiation.
• Spatial differentiation.
• Radiometric differentiation.
• Preprocessing digital data.
• Radiometric preprocessing.
• Atmospheric correction.
• Destriping.
• Image enhancement.
• Contrast stretch.
• Piecewise contrast stretch.
• Histogram equilization.
• Sinusoidal stretch.

Geosci 4400 – Remote Sensing II: Advanced Digital Image Processing (4 credits).

• Initial display alternatives.
• Univariate and multivariate statistics in remote sensing.
• Georectification, registration, and mosaicing.
• Density slicing.
• Class Intervals.
• Equal size.
• Equal area.
• Natural breaks.
• Video displays and color look-up tables.
• Intensity, Hue, Saturation color system.
• Red, Green, Blue color system.
• Spatial filters, edge enhancement, and directional filters.
• Fourier transform.
• Principal component analysis.
• Ratioing techniques.
• Vegetation indexes.
• Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI).
• Tasseled cap transformation.
• Microwave sensing (RADAR)
• Classification.
• Unsupervised.
• Supervised.
• Global positioning systems
• Theory and field application.
• Differential processing with a Community Base Station.