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ENVIRONMENTAL SENSING TECHNOLOGIES

ENVIRST 971
Course Description

Many diverse technologies for monitoring the environment have become available in recent years, including traditional remote sensing data sources: aerial photography and satellite imagery, hyper-spectral data, imagery on demand, RADAR and LiDAR. Other new data sources are quite unconventional, with many emerging relatively recently: unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs or drones), social media, smartphones as sources of crowd-sourced data, and more. Sophisticated data management, analytics, and presentation technology are required to effectively leverage both the spatial (including 3D) and temporal dimensions of these often untapped data sources. Intended to survey and explore these newly developing technologies, and provide direct experience to the student to understand and interact with the data and methods (geocomputing, coding, cloud-based platforms), and to learn to plan, manage, and utilize them effectively.

Prerequisties

ENVIRST/F&WECOL/GEOG/GEOSCI/GLE/LANDARC 371 and graduate/professional standing

Satisfies

This course does not satisfy any prerequisites.

Credits

Not Reported

Offered

Not Reported

Grade Point Average
3.44

-9.88% from Historical

Completion Rate
88.89%

-9.09% from Historical

A Rate
66.67%

-21.05% from Historical

Class Size
9

-20% from Historical

Instructors (2025 Fall)

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