Remote Sensing detailed syllabus for Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering (ETE) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the ETE students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.
For Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering 6th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit ETE 6th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. For Professional Elective-VII scheme and its subjects refer to ETE Professional Elective-VII syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of remote sensing is as follows.
Unit I
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Unit II
EMR INTERACTION WITH ATMOSPHERE AND EARTH MATERIAL
Standard atmospheric profile – main atmospheric regions and its characteristics – interaction of radiation with atmosphere – Scattering, absorption and refraction – Atmospheric windows – Energy balance equation – Specular and diffuse reflectors – Spectral reflectance & emittance-Spectroradiometer – Spectral Signature concepts – Typical spectral reflectance curves for vegetation, soil and water – solid surface scattering in microwave region.
Unit III
ORBITS AND PLATFORMS
Motions of planets and satellites – Newton ‘s law of gravitation – Gravitational field and potential -Escape velocity – Kepler ‘s law of planetary motion – Orbit elements and types – Orbital perturbations and maneuvers – Types of remote sensing platforms – Ground based, Air borne platforms and Space borne platforms – Classification of satellites – Sun synchronous and Geosynchronous satellites – Legrange Orbit
Unit IV
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Unit V
DATA PRODUCTS AND INTERPRETATION
Photographic and digital products – Types, levels and open-source satellite data products -selection and procurement of data – Visual interpretation: basic elements and interpretation keys -Digital interpretation – Concepts of Image rectification, Image enhancement and Image classification.
Text Books:
- Thomas M. Lillesand, Ralph W. Kieferand Jonathan W. Chipman, Remote Sensing and Image interpretation, John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York, 2015.
- George Joseph and C Jeganathan, Fundamentals of Remote Sensing, Third Edition Universities Press (India) Private limited, Hyderabad, 2018.
Reference Books:
- Stanley A Morain; Amelia M Budge; Michael S Renslow. Manual of Remote Sensing. Vol. I, American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Virginia, USA,2019, 4th edition
- Verbyla, David, Satellite Remote Sensing of Natural Resources. CRC Press,2022 first edition.
- Paul Curran P. J. Principles of Remote Sensing Longman, RLBS, 1996.
- Introduction to Physics and Techniques of Remote Sensing, Charles Elachi and Jacob Van Zyl, 2021 Edition3, Wiley Publication.
- BasudebBhatta, Remote Sensing and GIS, Oxford University Press, 2020 third edition.
Course Outcomes:
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