GEOG 319

Remote Sensing of the Environment

Units: 1.5, Hours: 2-2

Focuses on physical principles underlying remote sensing and electromagnetic propagation in free space and matter; attenuation, absorption and scattering mechanisms; interaction of energy with the atmosphere and Earth materials such as vegetation, soil, rock, water and urban structures; and microwave/LIDAR interaction with Earth materials.

Prerequisites: 222, 228.

Undergraduate course in Geography offered by the Department of Geography in the Faculty of Social Sciences.