Hasnath Geographic treatment of the state's raison d' etre , population, territory, resources, economic and political organizations, boundaries, and frontiers. Survey of geopolitical theory, supranational organizations, and world power. Discussion section required. Pursues both the algorithms involved in processing remotely sensed images and their application. Topics include spectral and spatial enhancement, image classification and clustering, spatial analysis, and linear transforms.
Students write image-processing programs.
Meets with CAS GG 440. Chatterjee Theory and experience of Third World development. Emphasis on issues of income distribution, geograpical and regional inequality, importance of location in development planning, efficiency and equity consideration, and models of and strategies of regional development. Meets with GRS GG 756. Field and library work.