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Course Number 0349-4848-01
Course Name Soil and Plant Spectroscopy From Laboratory to Satellite Towards Agriculture opt
Academic Unit The Raymond and Beverly Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences -
Geography and the Human Environment
Lecturer Prof. JOSE ALEXANDRE MELO DEMATTEContact
Contact Email: jamdemat@usp.br
Office HoursBy appointment
Mode of Instruction Lecture
Credit Hours 2
Semester 2020/2
Day Mon
Hours 16:00-18:00
Building
Room
Course is taught in English
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Short Course Description

Soil and Plant spectroscopy from laboratory to satellite towards agriculture optimization

Executer: Prof. Jose Alexandre Dematte (Full Prof. Remote sensing and soils), University of São Paulo, Brazil

Open: to MSc students (and higher) with Introduction to Remote Sensing or equivalent background course.

Duties: Full attendees, Exam and Exercise

Scope: A theoretical course combined with practical exercises and laboratory work. Softwares: Qgis, R, Alrad.


Contents


· Fundamentals on soil characterization, mapping and its importance for community. The link with the soil sensing dicipline.

· Fundamentals of Soil spectroscopy (VIS-NIS-SWIR-MWIR-LWIR), its importance for soil analysis, state of art and perspectives.

· Soil spectral Library (SSL) : notation, definition, global coverage and limitation.

· A Soil Spectroscopy program on to insert/train wet soil laboratories into the new soil sensing era. Results and experience of the Brazilian Program of Soil Analysis via spectroscopy: importance for the community (food safety issues).

· Fundamentals of sensors in the electromagnetic spectrum and its state of art for soils and agriculture (gamma, x-ray fluorescence, ultraviolet, vis-nir, swir, mir, thermal, magnetic susceptibility, electric conductivity). A comparison between fundamentals of the wet laboratory and spectroscopy, including LIBS technology.

· Exploiting the SSL for field and remote sensing arena: problems solutions and practical utilization.

· Detailed descriptive analysis of soil spectra.

· Fundamentals of plant spectroscopy, its importance, state of art and perspectives and limitation

· A general review of available spectral data bases of plants

· Detection of bare soil by satellite images. Soil and plant image patterns based on color compositions and enhancement

· Remote (UVA, aerial-AISA, satellite-Landsat, Sentinel) and Proximal (laboratory, field, tractor) sensing applied to agriculture, present, future and limitations. Image and spectral signatures interpretation of soil and plant related to their composition. Data mining methods.

· A case study of the relationship between soil and plant spectra via images (VIS-NIR and thermal) plus field electrical conductivity on productivity.

· Image interpretation of objects, plants, soils types and agriculture management. From multi to hyperspectral sensing. Exploitation image data from air and space for soil mapping.

· Vegetation indices and spectral related productivity.

· Strategies on how to use spectral tools for soil management (e.g. degradation and fertilization).

· The soil sensing cycle and its powerful information for community.




Full Syllabus
Course Requirements

Final Exam

Students may be required to submit additional assignments
Full requirements as stated in full syllabus

PrerequisiteRemote Sensing and Photo (03494434)

The specific prerequisites of the course,
according to the study program, appears on the program page of the handbook



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