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EnglishSelf StudyVideo and Text Based

Courses and Certificate Fees

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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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