SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING – SIO 135/SIO 236
(http://topex.ucsd.edu/rs)

David Sandwell; 1102 IGPP; dsandwell@ucsd.edu
Helen Fricker; 202 MESOM; hafricker@ucsd.edu

TA: Marnie Bryant; m1bryant@ucsd.edu

4 Units 
Lecture: MWF 12:30-1:20, in Zoom

Office Hours:   by appointment, send e-mail

Grades: undergrad HW/Labs (50%), Midterm (20%), Final (30%)
                 grad HW/Labs (50%), Midterm (20%), Final (1%), Term Paper (29%)

Late HW/Labs: 20% reduction first day and 10% second + days. Very late is still worth up to 70%


SYLLABUS
Date Topic Reading Homework Lecturer
  LAB 0
 		Download and install MATLAB
 		Installation instructions

29MAR

Introduction to course,  labs, term papers
 Overview of remote sensing

Rees 1.1-1.4
Appendix

 


Sandwell
Fricker



 31MAR




 Fricker
 Bryant
 Sandwell
02APR

Platforms and orbits
 Use of color in RS

Rees 10.1-10.4
 notes on orbits

HW1


Sandwell

 LAB 1
 		MATLAB basics, plotting


05APR
 		Electromagnetic radiation, polarization
 		Rees 2.1-2.2
EM Summary


Fricker

 
 07APR



 Fricker
 Bryant
 Sandwell

09APR
 		GPS and the Ionosphere
Fourier transform introduction 		Rees 2.3
HW2

Sandwell

 LAB 2 1-D and 2-D Fourier transforms



12APR
Thermal radiation Rees. 2.5-2.6
notes on radiation

 Fricker
 

 
 14APR



 Fricker
 Bryant
 Sandwell

16APR Spectra and Fourier transforms
Diffraction  		Rees. 2.7
 notes on fourier
 		HW3

Sandwell
 

 LAB 3  Data Types
 		 

19APR
Propagation, dispersion, and scattering
Rees 3.1, 3.3, 3.5
 		 

 Fricker

 21APR



 Fricker
 Bryant
 Sandwell

23APR Image processing - 1 Rees 11.1-11.2
 notes1
HW4

 Sandwell
 LAB 4 Google Earth



 26APR
 		Image Processing - 2
Optics, stereo
Rees 5.1-5.3
convolution.m
 HW5


  Sandwell


 28APR



  Sandwell
  Bryant
  Fricker


 30APR
 		Image classification
Machine learning
Rees 11.3-11.4
 classification demo


  Fricker

 LAB 5   Image Processing


03MAY

Review and go over HW 1-5



Term Paper - Part 1 Due
(grad students)

 

 05MAY

 Practice Midterm


07MAY
Midterm


 

NO LAB



10MAY Passive microwave systems and applications
Rees 7.1-7.4
 notes1  notes2
 

 Fricker


 12MAY



 

  Fricker
  Bryant
 
 14MAY 		 
 Radar and laser altimetry 		 
 Rees  8.1 - 8.3
 notes
  HW6


  Fricker

  LAB 6  Image Classification


17MAY Scattering and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)

Rees 9.1 - 9.3

Image Classification
 Scatterometry
SAR Theory
 		Term Paper - Part 2 Due
(grad students)

Sandwell


 19MAY



 

 Sandwell
 Bryant
21MAY Radar Interferometry
 		Rees 9.4-9.5
InSAR Theory (not on final exam)
 		HW7 - Due June 6
 KMZ-helper

Sandwell

 LAB 7 Laser and Radar Altimetry


24MAY Earthquakes and Volcanoes



Sandwell or Xu


 26MAY
Remote sensing of the cryosphere:

 Fricker or Bryant

28MAY
 		Grad. Student Presentations



 LAB 8  Radar Interferometry   (optional lab)

31MAY
 		Holiday



 02JUN

Grad. Student
Presentations



04JUN
 		Grad. Student Presentations
Review for Final Exam
 		LAST DAY TO TURN IN ALL HOMEWORK AND LABS
09JUN
Final Exam
11:30 - 1:30 PM
 		The final exam will include questions from the graduate student presentations.  The exam will have questions from the entire course.
Term Paper - Part 3 Due (grad students)

SIO 236 REQUIRED TEXT:

Rees, W. G. TITLE Physical principles of remote sensing SECOND OR THIRD EDITION, Cambridge University Press, 2013., 440 p.,  ISBN 978-0-521-18116-7 (Paperback)

WEB MATERIAL:

Textbook web site
Solutions to Chapter Problems

NASA Missions
NASA Science

OTHER TEXT BOOKS:

Massom, R., D. Lubin, Polar Remote Sensing, V II: Ice Sheets, Springer Verlag, 426 pp., 2006.

King, M. D., C. L. Parkinson, K. C. Partington, and R. G. Williams, TITLE Our Changing Planet: The View From Space, PUBLISHED Cambridge, UK, Cambridge University Press, 390 pp. ISBN 9780521828703, 2007.

Figures from Changing Planet: The View From Space.

Elachi, Charles TITLE Introduction to the physics and techniques of remote sensing /Charles Elachi. PUBLISHED New York : Wiley, c1987. DESCRIPTION xvii, 413 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm. SERIES Wiley series in remote sensing. NOTE "A Wiley-Interscience publication." Includes bibliographies and index. ISBN 0471848107.

Stewart, Robert H. TITLE Methods of satellite oceanography / Robert H. Stewart. PUBLISHED Berkeley : University of California Press, c1985. DESCRIPTION viii, 360 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm. SERIES Scripps studies in earth and ocean sciences. 1. NOTE Includes index. Bibliography: p. [329]-351. ISBN 0520042263. SUBJECT Astronautics in oceanography.

Gonzalez, Rafael C.  TITLE Digital Image processing using MATLAB / Rafael C. Gonzalez, Richard E. Woods, Steven L. Eddins.  Upper Saddle River, N. J. : Pearson Prentice Hall,  c2004.  UCB   Engin       TA1632 .G66 2004

Gonzalez, Rafael C. TITLE Digital image processing / Rafael C. Gonzalez, Richard C. Woods. PUBLISHED Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, c1992. DESCRIPTION xvi, 716 p.. [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm. NOTE Includes bibliographical references (p. 683-703) and index. ISBN 0201508036. SUBJECT Image processing --Digital techniques. AUTHOR Woods, Richard C.

Richards, J. A. (John Alan), 1945- TITLE Remote sensing digital image analysis : an introduction / John A. Richards. EDITION 2nd rev. and enlarged ed. PUBLISHED Berlin ; New York : Springer-Verlag, c1993. DESCRIPTION xx, 340 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm. NOTE Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 3540548408 (Berlin : acid-free paper) 0387548408 (New York : acid-free paper) SUBJECT Remote sensing.