Coastal Remote Sensing and GIS

Catalog description

Introduce the students to the basic concepts in remote sensing and digital data analysis, with a focus on coastal and nearshore processes. Basic physics pertaining to interaction of electromagnetic radiation with land and water and how that is effectively recorded by satellite sensors will be discussed. Familiarize with high resolution coastal lidar data processing for monitoring long-term and short-term (landfall of a hurricane) beach and nearshore morphologic evolution. Provides hands-on training in GIS for processing LIDAR data as well as for image classification.