THE COURSE MATERIAL AND LAB ORGANIZATION 
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As stated in the introduction remote sensing and GIS have to pro 
vide a limited number of courses to support the Environmental 
Studies program. Such courses has been found out to be organized 
in two levels for each field as follow's: 
1. A basic course covering Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry which 
is a required course in the curriculum and provides the basic 
principles for obtaining desirable quality images and extracting 
metric and non metric information of the environment from images. 
2. An advanced course covering selected environmental applications 
of remote sensing. This is an elective course and its material is 
still in the preparation stage. 
3. A basic course in GIS which covers GIS basic principles and 
components such as: cartographic data collection (in the field 
using compass, in .the office using digitizer) and entrance in the 
system, basic operations in data organization (raster/vector data 
forms) and processing, concepts of relational data bases, decision 
making functions of the GIS for the environment, data presentation 
(display and printer/piotter forms). 
4. An advanced course covering selected environmental applications 
of GIS. This is an elective course and its material is still in the 
preparation stage. 
The analytical outline of the two basic courses is given bellow: 
OUTLINE OF BASIC REMOTE SENSING COURSE 
(4th semester) 
Units : 3 (2-hour lecture, 2-hour-lab per week) 
Prerequisites : Math I, Computer Programming I 
Grading- : Lab assignments 30%, Written exams 70%. 
Photographic and non photographic systems for: aquisition, forma 
tion, processing and display of images. Mathematical principles 
and geometry of images. Photointerpretation methods for 
extraction of reliable information from images. Algorithms for 
image enhancement, image processing, and classification of digital 
images. Review of existing technology.