Geog 250 -- Exploration of Remote Sensing sites on the web

Assignment 4

I realize that a lot of material was covered in a very short amount of time. The purpose of the lecture was to show the opportunities in this area not make you experts. Like anything once you start working in this field it becomes much easier.

 

Assignment Requirements:

Part 1

  1. Read the Definition of Remote Sensing in your free on-line textbook (Click here to go to textbook), pages 17 through 20.
  2. Using a good search engine, like http://www.google.com/ type in the following exact phrase -- remote sensing tutorial table of contents -- this should lead you to Dr. Nicholas M. Short's on-line tutorial. From the Table of Contents  go to the Introduction and click on the section titled "The Concept of Remote Sensing" and carefully read this web page.
  3. You may then browse through the table of contents and choose one other area of interest to read in the Introductory section of this tutorial (we will discuss what else you found in class on Friday).
  4. Now notice that the full tutorial includes 20 sections of applied illustrations addressing a wide variety of ways in which Remote Sensing is used.  Choose one or more of these and spend some time reading and browsing through them.
  5. Printout at least two images that you found most intriguing in the above section(s) that you browsed. 
    • One way to do this Capturing using Photo Paint Pro is provided in the Proclibs
    • Another way that sometimes works would be to look at the images in your internet browser, then use the Save AS command to download to the temp drive on your computer.  Next open this html file with MS Front Page then highlight and copy the image, next paste it into your MS Word document.

Write Up: Organize your write-up as follows:

1. Definitions (provide definitions and short discussion for each of the following):

  • Remote Sensing - In your own words what does this mean?
  • Active versus Passive remote sensing - what is the difference, provide at least one example of each type.
  • Besides a camera describe other methods are used as a remote sensing recording system.

2.  Describe the applied section of Dr. Short's tutorial that you read and browsed. Critique and discuss this section.  What was the focus of this section, what did you learn in it, what applications are possible for remote sensing based on it, might you suggest any changes or improvements?

3.  Provide two print-outs of images from the above section of Dr. Short's tutorial and for the two images describe the information found in them.

4. What is your own impression of the importance of remote sensing after the class  lecture? Please provide an example or two illustrating your point.