Remote Sensing Minor (16 cr)

Interdisciplinary
Remote Sensing is measurement from a distance, sensing from afar. It uses the whole electromagnetic spectrum and is applied on a huge variety of scales, from microscopic to satellite or astronomical levels. It is used where direct sensing is impossible or difficult. Most of the remote sensing faculty have active research programs that require student workers and this experience is good professional training.

The field is highly interdisciplinary and extremely broad and team based, including specialists in atmospheric physics and chemistry, biological and earth sciences, electrical engineering, forestry and ecology, civil, and environmental engineering, oceanography, limnology, image and signal analysis, astronomy and computer sciences.

The Remote Sensing Institute has faculty from 9 different departments and has a number of advanced lab facilities as part of a NASA center of excellence.

Required Courses—4 credits
UN 4000 Remote Sensing Seminar: 1
Select one of the following two courses:
FW 4540 Remote Sensing of the Environment: 3
GE 4250 Fundamentals of Remote Sensing: 3

Elective Course-12 credits Total

3-6 - elective courses/Data Acquisition & Processing Area:
EE 2150 - Intro to Signal Processing - 3
EE 3140 - Electromagnetics - 3
EE 4252 - Digital Signal Processing - 4
EE 5500 - Statistical Signal Processing - 3
EE 5520 - Fourier Optics - 3
FW 5560 - Digital Image Proc: A Remote Sensing Perspective - 4
GE 4250 - Fundamentals of Remote Sensing -3
(Do not select if selected under Required Courses, above)
PH 2230 - Electronics for Scientists - 4
PH 3210 - Optics - 3

3-6 credits - elective courses/Data Management Area:
CE 5661 - GIS Applications- 3
CS 2090 - Special Topics in CS - 3
CS 4611 - Foundations of Computer Graphics - 3
FW 3540 - Intro to GIS for natural Resource Management - 4
FW 5550 - Geographic Information Systems - 4
MA 2720 - Statistical Methods - 4
MA 4515 - Intro to partial Diff Equations - 3
MA 4610 - Numerical Linear Algebra - 3
MA 4710 - Regression Analysis - 3
MA 5701 - Statistical Methods - 3
MA 5980 Special Topics in Mathematics - 3

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