KGG/QRSP Remote Sensing Principles

Lecturer: Miroslav Vysoudil
Lecture: 1 hour/week
Credits: 3
Winter semester
Form of course completion: colloquium

The subject deals with followed topics: remote sensing and geograpghical information systems, raster vs. vector data and their sources, conception of remote sensing and its principles (sources of radiation, interaction of solar radiation with atmosphere and earth surface, forms of data gathering and their interpretation, referential data), multispectral, thermal and hyperspectral data, optical environmental satellites (history, systems), microwave environmental satellites (history, systems), visualisation of remotely sensed digital data (rectification, image enhancement, spatial interpretation, classification, integration into GIS), remote sensing terminology, Earth observation system, application in geography and environmental research.