Courses Handbook 2008

5940 (v.4) Geological Remote Sensing 501


Area: Department of Applied Geology
Credits: 12.5
Contact Hours: 2.0
** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **
Lecture: 2 x 1 Hours Weekly
Syllabus: Physics of remote sensing with application to geology, spectral properties of soils, rocks, vegetation and water in visible, infrared (IR) and microwave regions, soil conductivity and moisture dependence, pre-dawn and post-sunset IR geological imagery, radar backscatter from soil and canopy, synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and image interpretation, Land Remote-Sensing Satellite (LANDSAT) multispectral scanner (MSS) and thematic mapper instruments, image interpretation and application and case studies. Airborne platforms, multispectral scanners, image destriping, applications and case studies.
** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **
Field of Education: 010700 Earth Sciences (Narrow Grouping)
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Informational
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2008 Bentley Campus Semester 1 Y        

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

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