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* Technical
1. Image Basics
o What is a digital image?
o What is spatial resolution?
o What is temporal resolution?
o What is spectral resolution?
2. Image Data (previously called "Image Formats")
3. What are the different levels of imagery I can buy/download?
4. Is there a non-proprietary image format for geographic/RS
data? (GEOTIFF)
5. Do I need geocoded imagery?
6. Instruments
o Imaging Instruments
o How do Remote Sensing Instruments Work?
o Tracking Instruments
o List of Imaging Spectrometers
o What is a Sounding Instrument?
7. Basic Processing (TBD)
8. Orbits: (TBD)
_The original idea was a mini-tutorial intro; looks like I
never got round to it :-(_
o Where can I learn about satellite orbits?
o What are the orbits of EO satellites?
o what is the advantage of a polar orbit? What can you see
from a geostationary orbit (Meteosat)? Other orbits?
o Is there a list the various satellite's orbits?
o How do I convert Landsat Path/Row to Lat/Long?
9. Data
o How is satellite data received on the ground?
10. Geo-referencing (someone?)
11. I am using my images for some classification problem.
o I need to classify a mosaic of several images. How best
to do it?
o How can I assess my results?
o Is there a program to compute Kappa
coefficients/assessment measures?
o How good can I expect my results to be in practice?
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