COURSE UNIT TITLE

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR ATILLA HÜSNÜ ERONAT

Offered to

GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS
GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS - NON THESIS (EVENING PROGRAM)
GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Geographical Information Systems (Non-Thesis)

Course Objective

Radar is one of the powerful sensing tools for earth science applications. Actively operating radar system can gather data in all weather conditions. The applications of radar remote sensing systems reach from digital elevation modeling to earth surface deformations. This course will deliver the principles of radar and applications like elevation model generation,land cover mapping etc.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Recomended or Required Reading

Curlander, JC and McDonough, RM, Synthetic Aperture Radar: Systems and Signal Processing, Wiley, 1991.
Henderson, FM, Anthony, JL, Principles and Applications of Imaging Radar, John Wiley &Sons, 1998.
Hannsen, RF, Radar Interferometry - Data Interpretation and Error Analysis, Kluwer, 2001.
Hein, A., Processing of SAR Data: Fundamentals, Signal Processing, Interferometry, Springer, 2003.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Students will be given reading assignments a week in advance. Each week s lecture will begin with an introduction to the fundamentals of that week s content. Students will discuss the week s entire content with the lecturer s assistance in groups. Students will be assigned problems which they will solve individually and/or in group in laboratory environment. Students will write reports and present them orally.

Assessment Methods

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

- Fieldwork reports
- Laboratory reports
- Project report
- Oral presentation
- Written examination

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes