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


David Sandwell; 1102 IGPP; dsandwell@ucsd.edu; Ph.858 534-7109

Helen Fricker; 3202 IGPP; hafricker@ucsd.edu; Ph. 858 534-6145

Matt Wei(TA), mwei@ucsd.edu

4 Units, SECID 592006
Lecture TuTh 12:30p - 1:50p, IGPP 4301
Lab  Th 3:30p - 5:00p  or  F  12:30p-1:50p APM B349

Office Hours:   F  12:30p-1:50p or send e-mail

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

CAPE:  Undergraduate students will complete CAPE in class on June 03 and June 05
Graduate students will complete cape on line at: https://sio.ucsd.edu/secure/student/course_eval/
from MAY 27 until June 08


class e-mail

SYLLABUS
Date Topic Reading Homework Lecturer
 LAB 0  NO LAB First Week



01APR
Introduction Rees 1-8 + Appendix 2
Color Perception
  Sandwell
03APR Platforms and orbits Rees 246-269 + notes on orbits + notes on color HW1
Due April 10
Sandwell
 LAB 1  MATLAB basics, plotting
 Lab 1 Due April 15  Wei
08APR
NO CLASS
Electromagnetic radiation, polarization Rees 9-21 +  notes on E/M

 
10APR Spectra and Fourier Transforms notes on fourier HW2 - Rees, Ch.2,
Prob. 1, 3, 5
Due April 17
Sandwell
 LAB 2  1-D and 2-D Fourier transforms

Lab 2 Due April 22
lab2start.m
 Wei
15APR Diffraction Rees 28-33 + notes
Sandwell
17APR Thermal radiation Rees 22-28 + notes HW3 - Due April 24
Sandwell
 LAB 3  Data Types

Lab 3 Due Apr 29
lab3start.m
 Wei
22APR Propagation, dispersion, and scattering Rees 34-63
Rees 87-108
Ocean scattering web site
  Sandwell
24APR Optics, stereo and
electro-optical systems
Rees 109-133 HW4 - Rees
Ch.5   - Prob 2,3
Due  May 01
Sandwell
 LAB 4  Google Earth

 Lab 4 Due May 08
 Wei
29APR
Image processing Rees 270-299 + notes
 
 Term Paper - Part 1 Due
(grad students)
 
Sandwell
 30 APR
  1:15PM
What's Happening in the Bathtub?: An Overview of Present-Day Sea Level Change
1:15 pm in the Munk Conference Room - (there will be an extra credit question on the midterm from the lecture)

Steve Nerem
01MAY Review and go over HW 1-4


Sandwell
 LAB 5  Image Processing

Lab 5 Due May 13
lab5start.m
 Wei
06MAY Midterm


Wei
08MAY Passive microwave systems Rees 175-191 +  notes + more notes Image Classification Sandwell





 LAB 6   Image Classification

Lab 6 Due May 20
lab6demo.m demo.jpg
lab6start.m
 Wei
13MAY  Ocean Color
satellite_projects
tutorials
publications

Mati  Kakru
15MAY  Radar altimetry   Rees 192-212 + ocean_alt +
ocean_retrack + ice_alt+retrack + ice_applications
HW5 - Ch. 7, Prob. 3
Ch. 8, Prob 3.
Due May 22
Fricker/Sandwell
 LAB 7   Laser and Radar Altimetry

Lab 7 Due May 27 (icesat)
lab7start.m
 Wei
20MAY Ice Applications of Laser Altimetry

Lecture
Fricker
22MAY Solid Earth Applications of Radar Altimetry Wuhan lecture Lecture
Sandwell
 LAB 8   InSAR (optional)


 Wei
27MAY Ocean Remote Sensing

Lecture Sarah Gille
29MAY Radar scattering and SAR Rees 213-227 +
SAR Summary
SAR Image Interpretation
SAR Image Formation (optional)
InSAR Summary (optional)
HW6, Due June 5 Sandwell





 LAB 9   NO LAB



03JUN Student Presentations
Tracking Eddies Remotely

Laser Altimetry with Icesat

GRACE monthly mass fluxes of the hydro- and cryo-sphere


Drushka

Nakamura

Ball
05JUN Student Presentations
Deformation from the M7.9 Sichuan Earthquake

SeaWhiFS measurements of Phytoplankton Dynamics


Shallow-water bathymetry from visual-band satellite images

  Tong

Taylor

Stephenson
09JUN Final Exam Monday 11:30 - 1:30
4301 IGPP
Four questions on the final exam will come from the lectures:MAY 13, 15, 20, 22, 29, and JUNE 03 and 05
open book(s)/notes need calculator   Sandwell
 13 JUN
All three components of term paper due




SIO 236 REQUIRED TEXT:

AUTHOR Rees, W. G. TITLE Physical principles of remote sensing SECOND EDITION / W.G. Rees. PUBLISHED Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001. DESCRIPTION xiv, 335 p. : ill. (some col.) ;  ISBN 0 521 66948 0 (pbk.) SUBJECT Remote sensing.

OTHER TEXT BOOKS:
AUTHOR 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.

AUTHOR 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.

AUTHOR 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.

AUTHOR 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

AUTHOR 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.

AUTHOR 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.


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