Basic Principles of Remote Sensing

Paper Code: 
RES132
Credits: 
3
Contact Hours: 
90.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 
On completion of this course, the students will be able to to get introduced with the concept and development of Remote Sensing,to learn about atmospheric window and to get familiarized with the interaction with Earth materials. They will be able to learn about remote sensing platforms.and other platforms related to Remote Sensing.
18.00
Unit I: 
Development of Remote Sensing
 Introduction to Remote sensing
 Fundamental principles of Remote Sensing
 Electromagnetic radiation
 EM Spectrum
18.00
Unit II: 
Atmospheric windows
 Scattering
 Areal Atmospheric Window
18.00
Unit III: 
Interaction with Earth Materials
 Types of Earth Material
 Interaction process
18.00
Unit IV: 
Remote sensing platforms
 Interaction to Sensing Platforms
 Sensors
 Land-Sat
18.00
Unit V: 
Other Important Platforms
 Spot
 Sea- Sat
 ERS
 IRS
Essential Readings: 
Adrados, C., Girard, I., Gendner, J., & Janeau, G. (2002). Global Positioning System (GPS) location accuracy due to selective availability removal. C.R. Biologies, 325, 165-170.
 Arvanitis, L., Ramachandran, B., Brackett, D., Rasoul, H., & Du, X. (2000). Multiresource interventions incorporating GIS, GPS, and database management systems: A conceptual model. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 28, 89-100.
 Basudeb Bhatta, Remote sensing and GIS, Oxford University Press, Nov 2011.
 Ellis, E. A., Nair, P.K.R., Linehan, P.E., Beck, H.W., & Balance, C.A. (2000). A GIS-based database management application for agroforestry planning and tree selection, Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 27, 41-55.
 Lillesand, Remote Sensing and Image Interpretation, 5th, John Wiley & Sons, 2007
Academic Year: 
2023-2024