REMOTE SENSING‏ TO MONITOR ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTERS

 פרופ' אלכסנדרה צ'ודנובסקי לינזון

  Course objectives: Learn about different satellite data sources, basics of environmental damage and how we can monitor each of the following: forest fires, dust storms, anthropogenic impact and stress on the ground, pollution transport and fate. Develop critical skills in: searching, archiving, evaluating, analyzing and applying information presented in current scientific and professional literature, to provide students with a conceptual and practical applications of Remote Sensing (RS) to environmental monitoring. The fundamental characteristics of electromagnetic radiation and what satellite measure; different approaches/algorithms to retrieve aerosols, sensors like MODIS, MISR, GOES, OMI, CALIPSO, the relationship/connection between satellite retrievals and ground observations; what ground monitoring sites can be used to support your analyses.

 Lab and Homework

Lectures, individual home work assignments, lab, including class presentation of each student on a selected topic which will be summarized in a written work and submitted at the end of semester. Attendance to both lecture and lab is required in the normal circumstances and forms a portion of your grade.

 Book references:

Jensen, J. R., 2007. Remote Sensing of the Environment: An Earth Resource Perspective, Prentice-Hall. Chapters 10-13. Jensen, John R. 2007.

 Journal references:

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Atmospheric Measurement techniques

Remote Sensing of Environment

GRL

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Environmental pollution

Science of the total environment, Science, Nature

 Online reading:

NASA Remote Sensing Online Tutorial