RSSA Courses

Remote Sensing Core Course

Course Number Course Title Units Typically Offered Instructor
REM 590**

Remote Sensing for the Study of Planet Earth**

3 Fall

William Smith

Spatial Analysis Core Courses

Course Number Course Title Units Typically Offered Instructor
RNR 517**

Geographic Information Systems for Natural and Social Sciences**

3 Fall Craig A. Wissler
REM 590** Remote Sensing for the Study of Planet Earth** 3 Fall

William Smith

Remote Sensing Technique Courses

Course Number Course Title Units Typically Offered Instructor
OPTI 506

Radiometry, Sources, and Detectors

3 Fall Richard Koshel
OPTI 508

Probability and Statistics in Optics

3 Spring Matthew Kupinski
ECE/OPTI 532 Digital Image Analysis 3 Fall

Jeffrey J. Rodriguez
 

ECE/OPTI 533

Digital Image Processing 3 Fall

Jeffrey J. Rodriguez

OPTI 539*

Estimation Methods in Optics

3 Fall

Currently Unavailable

ATMO 555 Introduction to Atmospheric and Hydrology Remote Sensing 3 Fall Ali Behrangi
GEN 560*

Electrical Exploration Methods

3 Fall

Currently Unavailable

GEOS 567 Inverse Problems in Geophysics 3 Fall and Spring

Richard Bennett

BE 585 Remote Sensing Data and Methods 3 Spring Kamel Didan
OPTI 637 Principles of Image Science 3 Spring

Eric Clarkson

ATMO656A** Atmospheric Radiation and Remote Sensing 3 Fall

Currently Unavailable

REM 696* Remote Sensing Seminar (not listed) 1 Spring

Currently Unavailable

Remote Sensing Applications Courses

Course Number Course Title Units Typically Offered Instructor
PTYS 518* Instrumentation and Statistic** 3 Fall

Chad Bender
Ewan Douglas

ENVS 520* Environmental Physics 3 Fall

Marcel Schaap

RNR/GEOG 522* Resource Mapping Using Unmanned Aircraft Systems 3 Fall

Willem J.D. van Leeuwen

HWRS/ATMO 524* Hydroclimatology 3 Spring

Guo-Yue Niu

GEOG 583 Geographic Applications of Remote Sensing** 3 Spring

W.J.D. van Leeuwen

ATMO 656B* Atmospheric Optics and Radiation** 3 Spring

Currently Unavailable

Spatial Analysis Courses

Course Number Course Title Units Typically Offered Instructor
ATMO 545 Introduction to Data Assimilation 3 Fall Avelino Arellano
GEOG 516C Urban Geographic Information Systems** 3 Fall

Currently Unavailable

GEOG 516E

Geovisualization (GIS)**

3 Spring

Currently Unavailable

RNR 517

Geographic Information Systems for Natural and Social Sciences**

3 Fall

Craig A. Wissler

RNR/GEOG 519

Cartographic Modeling for Natural Resources

3 Spring

D. Phillip Guertin

RNR/GEOG 520

Advanced Geographic Information Systems

3 Spring

Craig A. Wissler

RNR/GEOG 522*

Resource Mapping Using Unmanned Aircaft Systems 3

Fall

Willem J.D. van Leeuwen

GEOG 524

 Integrated Geographic Information Systems

3 Spring

Unavailable

GEOG 553

Advanced Location Theory**

3 Fall

Unavailable

GEOG 574G

Introduction to Geostatistics**

3 Spring

Unavailable

RNR/GEOG 573 Spatial Analysis & Modeling 3 Spring D. Phillip Guertin
RNR/GEOG 584 Fire Mapping 3 Spring

Unavailable

GEOG 657* Spatial Analysis 3 Spring

Currently Unavailable

GEOG 696C Spatiotemporal Data Analysis 3 Fall (not every year) Kevin Anchukaitis

Undergraduate Courses in Remote Sensing and Spatial Analysis

Course Number Course Title Units Typically Offered Instructor
GEOG 330 Introduction to Remote Sensing** 3 Fall

Tom Evans

BE 385 Precision Observations with Drones 3 Fall Kamel Didan
RNR/GEOG 403

Applications of Geographic Information Systems

3 Fall and Spring

D. Phillip Guertin

C.A. Wissler

GEN 407*

Photogeology

3 Spring

Currently Unavailable

RNR 417

Geographic Information Systems for Natural and Social Sciences**

3 Fall Craig Wissler
Gary Christopherson

RNR/GEOG 419

Cartographic Modeling for Natural Resources

3 Spring

D. Philiip Guertin

RNR/GEOG 420

Advanced Geographic Information Systems

3 Spring

Craig A. Wissler

RNR/GEOG 422

Resource Mapping using Unmanned Aircraft Systems 3

Fall

Willem J.D van Leeuwen

GEOS/GEN 448

 Geophysical Exploration and Engineering

3 Fall

B.K. Sternberg
 

ECE 456*

Optoelectronics

3 Fall

Kelly Potter

GEOG 458 Geography of Transportation 3 Fall and Spring

Unavailable

GEOG 483

Geographic Applications of Remote Sensing

3 Spring

W.J.D. van Leeuwen

REM 490*

Remote Sensing for the Study of Planet Earth

3 Fall

upon request

*Courses are currently unavailable **Crosslisted with several other Departments