additional resources

On this page, you will find links to additional resources/materials relevant to the material covered in EGM310 - GIS and Remote Sensing.

textbooks

In preparing the materials for this module, I have used the following textbooks - they are not required reading, but if you have access through a library or the means to pick up a (used) copy, they can help fill in some of the details.

• Campbell, J. B. and R. H. Wynne (2011). Introduction to Remote Sensing (5^th ed.). Guilford Press. ISBN 978160918176-5 [Google Books]

• Jensen, J. R. (2016). Introductory Digital Image Processing (4^th ed.). Pearson. ISBN 9780134058160 [Google Books]

• Lillesand, T. M., R. W. Kiefer, and J. W. Chipman (2015). Remote Sensing and Image Interpretation (7^th ed.). Wiley. ISBN 9781118343289 [Google Books]

week 9: fundamentals of terrestrial remote sensing

Part 1: What is (Terrestrial) Remote Sensing?

• Natural Resources Canada Remote Sensing Tutorials

• What is remote sensing? [ClimaByte]

• What is remote sensing? [CIRES]

Part 2: Electromagnetic Radiation

• Natural Resources Canada Remote Sensing Tutorials

• Tour of the Electromagnetic Spectrum [NASA]

• EM waves and the EM spectrum [Khan Academy]

• The photoelectric effect [National STEM Centre]

• The Ultraviolet Catastrophe [Physics Girl]

Part 3: Atmospheric Interaction

• Natural Resources Canada Remote Sensing Tutorials

• Why the sky is blue [How&Why]

Part 4: Earth Surface Interaction

• Natural Resources Canada Remote Sensing Tutorials

• Light Absorption, Reflection and Transmission [Bozeman Science]

• Specular Reflection [Bozeman Science]

• Specular and Diffuse Reflection [Khan Academy]

Part 5: Spectral Properties

• Mapping the Invisible [NEON Science]

• Landsat 8: Band by Band [NASA]

week 10: satellites and sensors

Part 1: Satellites and Sensors

• Natural Resources Canada Remote Sensing Tutorials

• Kepler’s Laws (series) [Socratica]

• Classical Orbital Elements [NSSI]

• Orbit Types [NSSI]

Part 2: Active Sensors

• Natural Resources Canada Remote Sensing Tutorials

• What is Synthetic Aperture Radar? [NASA]

• Introduction to LiDAR [NEON]

Part 3: Passive Sensors

• Natural Resources Canada Remote Sensing Tutorials

• Passive Microwave RS for Studying Climate [CU]

Part 4: Sensor Distortion

• Natural Resources Canada Remote Sensing Tutorials

• What is lens distortion? [Photography Life]

Part 5: Satellite Data

• Landsat Missions [USGS]

• ASTER Mission [NASA JPL]

• Sentinel-2 Mission [ESA]

Part 6: Finding Satellite Data

• Google EarthEngine Introduction [GeoHackWeek]

• Google EarthEngine 101 (long!) [Youtube]

Part 7: Digital Imagery

• How does a photon become a film photo? [SciShow]

• How do digital cameras work? [BBC Earth Lab]

• Digital Images [computerphile]

week 11: images and classification

Part 1: Band Combinations

• How to Interpret a False-Color Image [NASA]

• Interactive L-8 Band Combinations Tool [geocarto]

• Landsat Spectral Characteristics Viewer [USGS]

• The Many Band Combinations of Landsat 8 [L3Harris]

• Landsat 8: Band by Band [NASA]

Part 2: Image Enhancements

• Natural Resources Canada Remote Sensing Tutorials

• How Blurs & Filters Work [computerphile]

• Finding the Edges (Sobel Operator) [computerphile]

• Contrast Stretching in ArcGIS [Karen Joyce]

Part 3: Visual Interpretation

• Natural Resources Canada Remote Sensing Tutorials

• GlacierMap

Part 4: Image Decomposition

• Natural Resources Canada Remote Sensing Tutorials

• HSL Color Space [Khan Academy]

• NDVI [Karen Joyce]

Part 5: Classification

• K-means & Image Segmentation [computerphile]

• What is Image classification? [ESRI]

• Lu and Weng (2007), [Int. J. of Remote Sensing]

Part 6: Accuracy Assessment

• Accuracy Assessment for Image Classification [ESRI]

• Accuracy Assessment [ERDAS Imagine]

• Evaluating the Classification [Geo Data Design]

week 12: applications of terrestrial remote sensing

Part 1: Applications - Change Detection

• Earth Observatory [NASA]

• Make a Landsat GIF [NASA]

• Change Detection using Landsat 8 [GeoDelta Labs]

• Change Detection Using Landsat Imagery [VGE]

Part 2: Applications - Water Resources

• Living Ocean – Remote Sensing [NASA]

• Eerie Blooms in Lake Erie [NASA]

• Sentinel-3: Ocean Colour [EUMETSAT]

• Satellites View Growing Gulf Oil Spill [NASA]

Part 3: Applications - Observing Surface Motion

• How do glaciers move? Timelapse! [BBC Earth Lab]

• Landsat’s global view of ice velocity [NASA]

• InSAR [Michigan Tech]

• Volcano Warning Signs [Matthew d’Alessio]

• What is going on at Tunabreen? [Penny How]

Part 4: Applications - Archaeology

• Sarah Parcak: Archaeology from Space [TED]

• GlobalXplorer

• Archaeological mysteries hidden in satellite images [TED]

• LiDAR and the Archaeological Revolution [GIS Lounge]

• Sediments betray hidden shipwrecks [NASA]