GEOG 102/202: "Environmental Optics & Remote Sensing"

GEOG 102 & 202: "Environmental Optics & Remote Sensing"

WINTER QUARTER 2005, with DAR ROBERTS; Back to Ted's Main Page

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> I hope you enjoyed the class, and good luck in your future endeavors. Feel free to e-mail me (ted@geog.ucsb.edu) anytime to let me know what you're up to, and if you're still at UCSB, I hope to see you around campus: I'll probably be at UCSB until spring 2009 or so. Thanks for being such great students!

> The other announcements, and most of the course materials, have been removed from this web page because the class is over, but e-mail me if you'd like to see them again.

Labs and office hours:
WHEN:	WHERE:
Lab section: Monday 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM:	Ellison 3620 (Descartes Lab)
Lab section: Monday 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM:	Ellison 3620 (Descartes Lab)
Office hours: Wednesdays 10 AM - 12 PM & Mondays after labs	In the Star Lab (2nd floor of Ellison Hall)
Office hours also by appointment; e-mail me at tedeckmann@bigfoot.com	Wherever it's convenient for you

GEOG 102/202-Related Links:

NOAA's sunrise, sunset, solar position, and solar noon calculator:

This calculates the solar position at any time, and the times of sunrise, local solar noon, and sunset, for anywhere on Earth, on any day. It utilizes formulas covered in GEOG 102/202. You may want to use this to check your answers on GEOG 102/202 questions that involve sunrise/sunset or solar position:

http://www.srrb.noaa.gov/highlights/sunrise/gen.html

Starry Night Planetarium Software:

This program accurately renders the configurations of stars, planets, the sun, moon, and orbiting satellites, at any time past, present, or future. You can set your viewpoint anywhere on Earth, around the solar system, or from the perspective of a nearby star. It's useful for visualizing the Earth-sun orbital relationships, and sunrise, sunset, daylength, solar zenith and azimuth angles, from any latitude-longitude, at any time.

You'll enjoy this more with a fast computer.

http://www.starrynight.com/digitaldownload/trial_download.php

GEOG 102 (Undergraduate-level) Official Description, from UCSB's Course Catalog:

“Basic physical principles of electromagnetic radiation in the environment and their application to physical geography and remote sensing. Radiative transfer in atmosphere, oceans, snow and ice, inland waters, rock, soil, and vegetation. Spectral signatures in remote sensing.”

GEOG 202 (Graduate-level) Official Description, from UCSB's Course Catalog:

“Principles of radiation emission; radiative transfer equation and some solution methods; surface interactions; instrumentation; applications to remote sensing and energy budgets in atmosphere, ocean, and other media.”

Prerequisites: Geography 3A, Geography 3B, and Geography 115A

TEXTBOOKS:

Craig F. Bohren, Clouds in a Glass of Beer: Simple Experiments in Atmospheric Physics. 2001. Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications. xv, 195 p.

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/dover031/2001028308.html

Craig F. Bohren, What light through yonder window breaks? : more experiments in atmospheric physics. Wiley science editions. 1991. New York: J. Wiley. xvi, 190 p.

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/onix04/90041328.html

Course reader, Dar Roberts. Geography 102/202: Introduction to Environmental Optics; Winter 2005.