Thermal Hyperspectral Planetary Remote Sensing detailed syllabus for Geoinformatics Engineering (Geo) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the Geo 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 Geoinformatics Engineering 5th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit Geo 5th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. For Professional Elective-III scheme and its subjects refer to Geo Professional Elective-III syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of thermal hyperspectral planetary remote sensing is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
THERMAL REMOTE SENSING History – Thermal Infrared radiation principles – Thermal Radiation Laws – Thermal Properties of Terrain – Data collection-methods – Environmental Consideration – Thermal sensors and characteristics – thermal image characters-image degradation sources & correction.
Unit II
THERMAL DATA ANALYSIS Interpretation of thermal images, Emissivity conservation, Thermal inertia considerations, Factors effecting analysis of thermal images- Application: Estimation of land surface temperature, geological studies, evapotranspiration, Emissivity mapping, Sea Surface Temperature mapping, ET distribution, Urban heat island study.
Unit III
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Unit IV
HYPERSPECTRAL DATA ANALYSIS Spectral library – response functions – MNF transformation – library matching, spectral angle mapper, BBMLC-spectral mixture analysis – end member extraction – spectral unmixing- MIA analysis concepts – PCF, PCA, WPCA spectral transformation – band detection,reductionandselectionprinciples-datacompression-Applications:vegetation,soil and mineral
Unit V
PLANETARY EXPLORATION Universe and Solar system – Terrestrial planets – Planetary interior, atmosphere, planetary surface – simple and complex craters -Planetary exploration and missions: Mars Global Surveyor, Mars Express and MRO – Indian missions – payloads-Moon Minerology Mapper, Thermal emission spectrometer, HySI- age dating of craters – spectral signature of minerals -mineral identification.
Course Outcomes:
• On completion of the course, the student is expected to
- Understand the concepts of Thermal Remote Sensing
- Understand the thermal data analysis and applications
- Understand the Principles of Hyperspectral Remote sensing
- Workout Hyperspectral data analysis and Applications
- Acquire Knowledge at terrestrial planet and applicability of thermal and hyperspectral remote sensing
Text Books:
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Reference Books:
- Janza,F.Z.,Blue H.M.andJohnson,J.E.Manual of Remote Sensing. Vol.I, American Society of Photogrametry, Virginia,USA,2002.
- Verbyla, David, Satellite Remote Sensing of Natural Resources.CRCPress,1995
- Paul Curran P.J. PrinciplesofRemoteSensing.Longman,RLBS,1988.
- Thermal Infrared Remote Sensing Sensors, Methods, Applications Springer Publication 2013
- Hyperspectral Remote Sensing – Fundamentals & Practices by Ruiliang Pu, CRC Press 2017
- Remote Sensing Applications for Planetary Surfaces by Deepak Kumar, Lambert Academic Publishing, 2014
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