Microwave Remote Sensing detailed syllabus for Geoinformatics Engineering (Geo) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna University 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 4th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit Geo 4th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. The detailed syllabus of microwave remote sensing is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
FUNDAMENTALS AND ACTIVE SYSTEM 9 Introduction-Radar frequency bands – SLAR – Antenna System – SLAR Imaging Geometry -RADAR equation – Resolution concepts: Range and Azimuth resolution – Synthetic Aperture Radar – Geometric Distortions – Multilook averaging and speckle correction.
Unit II
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Unit III
IMAGING AND NON IMAGING SENSING 9 SAR Interferometry-Basics- Differential SAR Interferometry-applications polarimetry- Introduction -Polarization Ellipse – Polarization types — Synthesis and signatures – Polarimetric parameters-Information extraction – Polarimetric Image Interpretation and applications. Altimetry – Principle -Frequency bands – Location Systems- missions, Scatterometry- Scatterometer types and calibration – missions
Unit IV
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Unit V
PASSIVE SYSTEM 9 Radiometry- Passive microwave sensing components – Blackbody radiation and Grey body radiation – Emissivity, Radiometers – Components – Brightness temperature – Antenna temperature – Powertemperature correspondence, passive microwave interaction with atmospheric constituents -Emission characteristics of various earth features – Data products and Applications – Passive missions-DMSP, TRMM, Aqua missions, AMSR-E, AMSU.
Course Outcomes:
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Text Books:
- Ulaby, F.T., Moore, R.K, Fung, A.K, “Microwave Remote Sensing; active and passive, Vol. 1,2 and 3, Addison – Wesley publication company, 2001.
- John R.Jensen,Remote Sensing of the Environment: An Earth Resource Perspective,Pearson Education India, 2013.
- John A.Richards,Remote Sensing with Imaging RADAR, Springer,2009.
Reference Books:
- Prashant Srivastava, Dillep Gupta, Tanvir Islam, Dawei Han,Rajendra Prasad,RADAR Remote Sensing Application and Challenges, Elsevier,2022.
- Pranab Kumar Karmakar Microwave Propagation And Remote Sensing Atmospheric Influences With Models And Applications, Taylor & Francis,CRC Press, 2020
- Alessandro Ferretti ,Satellite InSAR data: Reservoir monitoring from Space, EAGE Publications, 2014.
- Jhon R.Schott, Fundamentals of Polarimetric Remote Sensing , SPIE press, 2010
- Woodhouse lain. H, “Introduction to Microwave Remote Sensing” Taylor & Francis, 2006.
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