TELERILEVAMENTO GEOLOGICO-AMBIENTALE E SISTEMI INFORMATIVI (GIS)
Knowledge of physics and geology is an essential requirement and, possibly, statistics. English language knowledge is a requisite as well. It would be useful to have attended before a basic GIS introduction, as i.e., “APPLICAZIONI GIS AL MONITORAGGIO DELLA BIODIVERSITà ” held at the Bs.C. course in “Scienze dell’Ambiente e della Natura ” at Insubria University.
Student evaluation will be based on a written test followed by an oral examination. The written test will be based on the theoretical content of the course. During the oral examination a hypothetical case study will be discussed with the student.
The slide talk, as well, will be part of the student evalutation. An examination held in this way offers both the opportunity to test student’s knowledge of the course content and to drive the student to develop specific skills on a) analysis of complex problems, b) the development of new and original research approach and c) good communications.
The final mark will be obtained from the weighted sum of the three parts, according to the following:
Written test: 40%
Oral exam: 40%
Talk: 20%
This course includes an introduction to the main techniques of remotely-sensed data acquisition and interpretation, in particular focusing on environmental sciences applications. An introduction to GIS conceptual model as well as methods for spatial data representation and analysis will be offered during the course.
Main topics are:
PART I – REMOTE SENSING
01. Course Introduction
02. Remote sensing basics
03. The physics…
04. Sensors and satellite missions
05. Applications: Botanics, vegetation and landuse
06. Aplications: Hydrology
07. Applications: Geology
08. Active sensors
09. Classification techniques: (supervised e unsupervised)
10. Structure From Motion techniques (SFM)
11. Geological photointerpretation
PART II – GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM - GIS
01. Introduction to GIS
02. Data management and representation
03. Data analysis– DB & querying
04. Spatial analysis
05. Introduction to geostatistics – interpolation techniques
06. 3D data viasualization and analysis
07. Map layout building
The slides of the course will be uploaded on the University e-learning website as well as all the sample data and SW used during the course.
The following textbooks are strongly suggested:
Carlo Maria MARINO, Alessandro TIBALDI – ELEMENTI DI TELERILEVAMENTO E FOTOINTERPRETAZIONE PER LE SCIENZE GEOLOGICHE ED AMBIENTALI – Editrice Progetti.
Ravi P. GUPTA - REMOTE SENSING GEOLOGY – Spinger, Second Edition.
James B. CAMPBELL Ph.D. – INTRODUCTION TO REMOTE SENSING – Third Ed. – Guilford Press.
Lessons are basically active lectures, held in one University seat and broadcasted on the other one. Some lectures include some practice on sample data (LANDSAT, SAR scenery and hyperspectral images, stereopaired aerial photographs etc.), using open source software (QGIS, MULTISPEC (Purdue Univ.), MESHLAB, ESA -SENTINEL2 TOOLBOX , GIMP)
Students are also invited to read and analyze a short peer-review paper (in english language and selected by the lecturer) that will be briefly presented to the class through a short slide talk (max. 5 minutes), followed by a discussion on methods and main results.