FYS 196 Monitoring Earth From Space
Space-borne sensor platforms including NASA’s Landsat series of satellites have been acquiring images of the earth’s surface since the early 1970s. The result is a matchless record of planetary environmental change over the last forty years. In this course, students learn to view, analyze, manipulate, classify, and evaluate these complex image data. For their final project, they produce verifiable land cover classifications from multiple images to compare in the quantitative assessment of environmental change over time.