Modern trends of education in photogrammetry & remote sensing

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Persistent identifier:: 856467936

Title:: Modern trends of education in photogrammetry & remote sensing

Sub title:: ISPRS Commission VI Symposium, September 13 - 16, 1990, Rhodes Island, Greece

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (251 Seiten)

Year of publication:: 1990

Place of publication:: Athens

Publisher of the original:: Technical Chamber of Greece

Identifier (digital):: 856467936

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Language:: English

Usage licence:: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Publisher of the digital copy:: Technische Informationsbibliothek Hannover

Place of publication of the digital copy:: Hannover

Year of publication of the original:: 2016

Document type:: Monograph

Collection:: Earth sciences

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Title:: Education of LIS/GIS (WG VI/2 and WG VI/7).

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Title:: INTERDISCIPLINARY EDUCATION IN REMOTE SENSING AND GIS THE WISCONSIN EXPERIENCE. Ralph W. Kiefer, Thomas M. Lillesand.

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BIS 120 ry education in Lemote sensing iduate program Environmental ments and the d research are resenting eight extension/out- ate and federal nsion/outreach and research ms, education, 3ate in remote al economics, , conservation mvironmental re, landscape ics, urban and ilities such as: mote Sensing and Analysis lies, Madison cological and i our campus. 1 information th American ind the Land systems and his paper, we REMOTE SENSING INSTRUCTION Remote sensing instruction is centered in the Environmental Monitoring Program, an interdisciplinary graduate program in remote sensing and geographic information systems administered by the Institute lor Environmental Studies (IES). Students in other departments (e.g., Civil and Environmental Engineering and Forestry) can also emphasize remote sensing in their graduate programs. Courses offered range from introductory photogrammetry, photo interpretation, and remote sensing courses to hands-on digital image processing courses and courses dealing with computer algorithms for digital image processing. Graduate students conduct remote sensing research through individual departments and the Environmental Remote Sensing Center, an IES research center. IES was established on our campus in 1970 as an interdisciplinary unit that combines environmental instruction with a comprehensive research program. The teaching staff of more than 60 faculty has ties with about 25 departments on campus. Research participants, both faculty and students, come from most of the major academic units on campus. IES offers an undergraduate certificate program in environmen tal studies (with an enrollment of more than 100 students) and administers graduate programs in Conservation Biology and Sustainable Development (M.S.), Environmental Monitoring (M.S. and Ph.D.), Land Resources (M.S. and Ph.D.), V/ater Resources Management (M.S.), and a master’s-level curriculum in Energy Analysis and Policy. More than 200 students are enrolled in the IES graduate programs. The Environmental Monitoring Program, initiated in 1977, has a typical enrollment of 20 graduate students (both M.S. and Ph.D. candidates). The program focuses on the use of remote sensing technology to expedite the continuous inventory and monitoring of natural resources and environmental conditions. Data collection from airborne and satellite platforms is emphasized, as is data analysis in the form of both computer-assisted image interpretation and visual interpretation. Also of concern is the organization, presentation, and communication of these data in a meaningful form to a wide variety of users. This involves consideration of the characteristics of applicable technology including physical, organizational, and economic limitations; characteristics of the desired data including definition, resolution, and distribution; and characteristics of the institutional and individual users. The program is based on the premise that the development of efficient and integrative monitoring systems is crucial if society is to have effective methods for resource management and environmental protection throughout the local to global continuum. The university enhances the program by offering many high-quality instructional and research resources in fields supporting remote sensing. For example, photogrammetry and geopositioning courses are offered by the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, cartography courses are taught in the Department of Geography, and GIS courses are taught in IES and the Departments of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Geography, Landscape Architecture, and Soil Science. In addition to a substantial amount of instruction on technique, the university offers an array of courses dealing with the natural resources observed by remote sensing and/or concerned with the institutional structures within which remote sensing data are used. Our campus also offers various courses dealing with earth system science, landscape ecology, and global change. Students are encouraged to draw on this broad spectrum of instructional resources in the design of their individual programs. The program emphasizes the application of remote sensing technology to natural resource management problems and environmental monitoring. Though the program is broadly based, it is not our objective to educate remote sensing "generalists." We require that our students demonstrate competence in a discipline first, and remote sensing second. We perceive remote sensing as an increasingly sophisticated and powerful tool, but as a means to an end, not an end in itself. Accordingly, students enter this interdisciplinary program with depth in a discipline. Normally, this is in one of the natural science or engineering fields, but physical planning and/or design fields such as landscape architecture or urban and regional planning also provide an appropriate disciplinary background.

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