ANT 296 Geospatial Analysis
Space-borne sensor platforms including NASA’s Landsat series of satellites have been acquiring digital images of the earth’s surface since the early 1970s. The result is a matchless record of planetary environmental change under pressures of human exploitation extending over 50 years. In this course, students learn to view, manipulate, classify, and evaluate these complex image data. For their final project, they produce verifiable land cover classifications to compare to existing classifications in the quantitative assessment of anthropogenic environmental change over time.