5. Credits: 4 6. Semester: Spring 7. Subject Area: ESEC
8. Pre-requisite: Nil
9. Objective: To provide knowledge about various techniques and applications
of digital remote sensing images.
10. Details of Course:
S. No. Contents Contact Hours
1. Introduction to remote sensing data analysis, spectral, spatial and 6 radiometric resolutions, visual data interpretation, image formats, digital image and its characteristics, image processing systems. 2. Initial data statistics, Histogram and Scatterplot. 2 3. Image Preprocessing, atmospheric, radiometric an geometric 6 corrections, image enhancement and restoration, contrast stretching- linear and non-linear. 4. Noise removal, low, medium and high pass filters, other filters, multi- 5 spectral enhancement. 5. Image transformation - mathematical operators, KLT, PCA, FFT, 9 image analysis - feature extraction, pattern recognition. 6. Classification - Supervised and unsupervised techniques. 5 7. Accuracy assessment procedures, post classification techniques. 2 8. Data fusion, fuzzy logic, advance image processing techniques and 7 concepts, application of digital image processing to various engineering problems. Total 42 11. Suggested Books:
S. No. Name of Books / Authors/ Publishers Year of
Publication 1. Agarwal, C.S. and Garg, P.K., Remote Sensing in Natural Resources 2000 Monitoring and Management, A.H. Wheeler & Co. 2. Chandra, A.M. and Ghosh, S.K., Remote Sensing and Geographical 2005 Information Systems, Alpha Science. 3. Gonzalez, R.C. and Wintz, P., Digital Image Processing, Addison 2000 Wesley. 4. Jia, X. and Richards, J.A., Remote Sensing Digital Image Analysis, 1999 3rd Ed., Springer Verlag. 5. Mather, P.M., Computer Processing of Remotely sensed Data, John 1999 Wiley.
Engineering Periods Per Week (Each of 60 Minutes) Lectures 04 Practical 02 Tutorial - Hours Evaluation System Theory 03 100 Oral - 25 Term Work - 25 Total 150