GEOG 102/202: "Environmental Optics"

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

WINTER QUARTER 2006, 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.

Ted Eckmann's Sections and Office Hours for Winter Quarter, 2006
WHEN:	WHERE:
Monday 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM: Lab section	Ellison 3620 (Descartes Lab)
Monday 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM: Lab section	Ellison 3620 (Descartes Lab)
"Office" hours: see me after any lecture or lab meeting, and I'll stick around as long as you want; from there, we can also go to the Star or LSIT computer labs to look at your Excel files if you want; you can also e-mail me to make an appointment for other meeting times; I'll also occasionally be at Dar's group office hours, which are Fridays 2-4 PM in Ellison 3620 (Descartes Lab)	In the Star Lab or LSIT Lab (2nd floor of Ellison Hall)
You can download class materials by using an FTP program, such as WS_FTP or SSH Secure Shell, to go to: vesta.geog.ucsb.edu login: anonymous password: your e-mail address and navigate to: pub/dar/geog102/ Or just try this link: ftp://vesta.geog.ucsb.edu/pub/dar/geog102/	The computers in the Star Lab have FTP programs installed on them, along with Excel (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 2006.