Miles G. Logsdon
One-time offerings of topics in fisheries by resident or visiting faculty.
This special topics course is focused on the Application Remotely Sensed data and Geostatistics in Earth Science Research. The course is ideally suited for those students who seek to develop more in-depth skills and an advanced understanding of the concepts behind modern tools for detecting, describing, and estimating spatial patterns and trends in earth observing satellite data. The course specifically addresses ways of investigating the spatial continuity that is an essential feature of natural phenomena.
Student learning goals
Quantitative description of spatial pattern, Image processing
General method of instruction
Lecture, software demo, projects
A background in a commercial GIS software and/or Image processing software
Class assignments and grading