Center for Remote Sensing Center for Remote Sensing T he Center's purpose is to encourage excellence in the development and application of remote sensing technology, and is structured as a joint effort among the College of Engineering, the College of Science and Liberal Arts, and the School of Aeronautics. Various laboratories and facilities in Academic and Research Computing, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Physics and Space Sciences, and Space Systems are also available. Graduate level courses include Radar Systems, Digital Image Processing, Pattern Recognition, Environmental Optics for Remote Sensing , Atmospheric Remote Sensing, Oceanic Remote Sensing, Aerospace Remote Sensing Systems, and Observational Methods in the Space Sciences. This course introduces the students to environmental satellite systems, resulting data, and image processing techniques. Discussions on the use of geographic information systems and use of satellite, aircraft, and remote sensing platforms are included.
Students use computers and imagery for applications to environmental issues and problems.
This course provides the basis for remote sensing methods used in meteorology. Operational atmospheric data and applications to numerical we ather prediction are presented. Ground-based meteorological radar systems and applications are also covered. The theoretical study of the fundamental relations, general theory, and shallow-water transmission of energy in the ocean. This course includes detailed coverage of components of stress, strain, and motion, waves of finite amplitude, ray characteristics, refraction of dispersive wave train, boundary conditions, ray solutions, and surface image solutions.