- Docente: Michaela De Giglio
- Credits: 6
- SSD: ICAR/06
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Geography and Territorial Processes (cod. 0971)
Course contents
The course is entirely carried out at the Geomatics and I.T. Laboratory of the Geography Department. It is heldd by Dr. Michaela De Giglio (for information: michaela.degiglio@unibo.it)
At the end of course students, who already possess knowledge of the basic principles of cartographic representation, digital mapping and geographic information systems (GIS), will acquire the following skills: digital image processing, the extraction of thematic information about several land and environmental aspects (geomorphology, urban, connected to cultural heritage, monitoring, etc..), the management of remotely sensed data in GIS software.
The topics are:
· Principles of remote sensing (active and passive): electromagnetic spectrum, digital images, sensors and satellites, data acquisition, resolutions, spectral signature, etc.
· Correction Models: radiometric and geometric distortions, algorithms for the correction (basic aspects).
· Pixel oriented and object-oriented classification: main algorithms of supervised and unsupervised classification, classification accuracy (basic aspects). Examples of classification application: cartography, the health state of vegetation, land use maps, etc
· Remote sensing applications: vegetation indices, filters, principal component analysis (PCA), georeferencing of remotely sensed images, digital terrain models (basic aspects).
· Active remote sensing: radar (basic aspects).
Readings/Bibliography
Principi e metodi di telerilevamento. Pietro Alessandro Brivio, Giovanni Lechi, Eugenio Zilioli. Città studi edizioni.
Basics of Geomatics. Mario A. Gomarasca. Springer.
Teaching methods
Lectures, practical exercises through the use of softwar
Assessment methods
Oral test
Teaching tools
Educational laboratory of Geomatics/Informatic with individual PC workstations, Open Source and trade software for digital image processing; Open Source GIS software; projector
Office hours
See the website of Michaela De Giglio