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October 26th,
2002-- REMOTE SENSING OF EARTH AND THE TERRESTRIAL PLANETS
Guest Scientist:
Christopher Small
Satellite-based sensors
have been imaging Earth since the 1950's. Technology originally
developed for military surveillance is now used for environmental
monitoring, resource exploration, and basic research on Earth surface
processes. What a sensor can detect is determined by its spatial,
spectral, and temporal resolution. This lecture will review the basic
principles of optical and microwave remote sensing, and discuss the
current state of the art in the context of these three types of
resolution.
Since the very first series of E2C Workshops, Dr. Christopher Small
has shared his expertise in this field. You can find much more through
his web pages,
http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/rsvlab/index.html . These pages
include fascinating images in the "Gallery" section, enticing
information in the "Research" section, useful ideas from his courses
in the "Education" section, links to "Resources" if you wish to find
out more, and additional information about the LDEO Remote Sensing
Image Analysis Laboratory.
Following Dr. Small's presentation, we will begin to explore remote
sensing techniques and think about what could be done with students
through the NASA Online Remote Sensing Tutorial (available through a
link in the Education section of Dr. Small's web pages.)
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