METIER Graduate Training Course No. 3: 

            Remote Sensing of the Land Surface

                          23-27 April 2007

                  University of Leicester, UK


Objective

Remote sensing offers key tools for earth and environment observation as well as assessments of effects caused by climate change or global change processes related to urbanisation, migrations, or land-use change. It is needed in all environmental disciplines.

Remote sensing is a methodology for data collection, analysis and the parameterization of environmental models. Note that remote sensing is much more than just collecting and analysing satellite data. It requires profound interdisciplinary knowledge to be able to interpret the data received and make it operational, e.g. for the use in Geographical Information Systems.

The present course addresses remote sensing in relation to processes and models of the land surface. This area requires different methodological approaches and will be beneficial to different applications and PhD theses.