METIER Graduate Training Course No. 3:

Remote Sensing of the Land Surface

About the Host  

The course will be held at the Geography Department at the University of Leicester, UK. Both physical and human geography have been rated by students as the top in the UK for student satisfaction (THES, 25th August 2006). Further details see the THES article (PDF). Leicester also ranks joint top amongst mainstream English universities for the second year in the National Student Survey 2006. See Press Release for more details. The University of Leicester is one of the UK’s leading research and teaching universities. The University has 18,005 students including 8,514 at postgraduate level. There are 34 academic departments located in five faculties: Arts, Law, Medicine and Biological Sciences, Science and Social Sciences. The University employs approximately 3,500 staff. The University had 25 ratings of 5*, 5 or 4 in the 2001 Research Assessment Exercise when 84% of the staff were in units of assessment of national and international excellence. Its student completion rate is in the top 10 nationally. Leicester is home to two Centres of Excellence in Teaching and Learning and plays an important part in a third. The Department of Geography carries out interdisciplinary research into the nature and dynamics of human-environmental systems, and houses the Human Geography group, the GIS group and the Physical Geography group.
The department has a large, vibrant and friendly postgraduate community housed in modern facilities with dedicated computer access. Currently over 50 students are registered on our postgraduate programmes which include environmental management, physical and human geography and geographical information science (GIS) and satellite remote sensing.

See http://www.le.ac.uk/geography/ for details.