GEOGG140 Image Processing and GIS

CORE GEOGG140 - Image Processing and GIS
(15 credits)

Term 1 (2011)


Staff:
Professor Stuart Robson

Aims:
The aim of this course is to introduce transferable knowledge, techniques and computing skills to handle with remote sensed imagery data for image visualization, thematic information enhancement and extraction and geographic information manipulation using digital image processing and GIS.

Understand the principles and mathematical background of image processing and GIS.
Be able to use and understand image processing and GIS software packages and to apply these to various applications of remote sensing.

Content:
The module will introduce essential knowledge and techniques of image processing and geographic information system (GIS) for remotely sensed images in order to enhance, classify, extract andanalysethematic information for various remote sensing applications. The details of the content of the course are shown in the teaching outline below.The course is taught in lectures and matching hands-on computer practical sessions.

Assessment:
3 hour seen examination, which takes place at the start of Term 2.