Emphasis on applications of digital image processing to remote sensing problems. Physical factors and processes operating in the earth-atmosphere boundary zone. Solar radiation, expotranspiration, and water balance studies for various natural and cultural environments. Examples include bioclimates of vegetation, air-sea interaction, urban climate, physiologic climatic parameters, and climatic change. Introduces the essentials in GIS, methods of data capture and sources of data, nature and characteristics of spatial data and objects, data structures, modeling surfaces, volumes and time, and data uncertainty.
Emphasis is on applications.
Laboratory exercises included. Modification of environments by human activity. Air quality, natural-hazard prediction, terrain impacts of human activity in urban and rural world areas. Environmental policy development. Interrelationships among population, economic growth, environment, energy and natural resource supplies, particularly in developing countries.