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    Medium Of InstructionsMode Of LearningMode Of Delivery
    EnglishSelf StudyVideo and Text Based

    Courses and Certificate Fees

    Fees InformationsCertificate AvailabilityCertificate Providing Authority
    INR 15868yesUAF Alaska

    The Syllabus

    • Remote sensing and the evolution of remote sensing
    • Electromagnetic radiation and atmospheric windows
    • Remote sensing processes and types
    • Images and image resolutions
    • Geographic and projected coordinate systems
    • Remote sensing: advantages and challenges

    • Introduction to ArcGIS Pro, Geoprocessing tools, and ArcGIS best practices
    • Fundamentals of image interpretation and feature visualization
    • Spectral indices and their applications:
    • NDVI (for vegetation health)
    • Band ratio (for cloud mask)
    • NBR (for mapping wildfire burn scars)
    • NDWI (for mapping surface water)

    • Introduction to image classification
    • Image classifiers (supervised vs unsupervised)
    • Land cover mapping in ArcGIS Pro
    • Fieldwork for image classification accuracy assessment

    • Search and download image data from the USGS EarthExplorer site
    • Lake change analysis using Landsat data
    • Arctic greening: effect of arctic warming on vegetation productivity

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