Geography 323 - Pixels to Landscape: Mapping the World with Rasters and Satellites

This course builds on introductory GIS courses GEOG-205 and GEOG-210 that are "vector-oriented". We cover more advanced topics of raster GIS and Remote Sensing. We will use the enhanced analytical capability of raster GIS to analyze landscape data and use satellite imagery to model the surface of the Earth. Some of the themes of raster GIS covered are environmental modeling, land suitability, land change modeling, multi criteria evaluation, cost distance analysis, terrain modeling, etc. In the area of Remote Sensing, we'll explore some of the newer satellite imagery available and will work with image exploration, geo-registration, and restoration, supervised and unsupervised classification, etc. Final project will be required, as well as weekly exercises and quizzes.

Prereq: GEOG-205 or GEOG-210.