GEOG 327 — Introduction to Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems
Geography and Resource Development · University of Ghana
(GIS) The course will deal with photographic and scanner remote sensing; basic principles of remote sensing; electromagnetic spectrum; the multiband concept of imagery interpretation; photographic remote sensing and its application in urban and rural land use studies. In addition it will deal with the definition and types of remote sensing; a historical review of the development of environmental remote sensing, the physical basis of remote sensing (the electromagnetic spectrum), aerial photographs, characteristics, types, flying for cover and types, scale, overlaps, stereo-vision, relief displacement; photo evaluation (photo reading, analysis and interpretation); principles of object recognition: shape, size, texture; project procedure (including library search, reconnaissance survey, fieldwork, analysis and recording); application in urban and rural inventories; and principles of Geographic Information Systems.
- Credits
- 3
- Level
- Level 300
- Semester
- Semester One
Other courses on this programme
- GEOG 211 — Introduction to Geographic Thought
- GEOG 212 — Geomorphological Processes and Landforms
- GEOG 213 — Introduction to Weather and Climate
- GEOG 214 — Principles and Methods of Cartography
- GEOG 321 — Soils and Biogeography
- GEOG 323 — Regional Geography of Africa (One region outside West Africa)
- GEOG 325 — Theory and Practice of Geography
- GEOG 331 — Arid Lands
- GEOG 111 — Introduction to Physical Geography
- GEOG 112 — Introduction to Human Geography
- GEOG 322 — Introduction to Resource Analysis
- GEOG 324 — Regional Geography of West Africa, with Special Reference to Ghana
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Start freeCourse details from University of Ghana Volume 2 Handbook for the Bachelor's Degree: Course Descriptions for Programmes in the Humanities (2017).