An overview including background, history, need of remote sensing. Recent developments in remote sensing. Electromagnetic spectrum, Source and sensor. Physical terms and units, Radiometric terms and units. Thermal properties. Interaction of different wave-lengths with the earth’s surface and vegetation.

Aerial Photographs: Films and cameras. Scale and corrections, displacement. Distance, area, height and slope measurements. Techniques of Photogeological mapping. Relation to topographic maps. Photo-interpretation drainage, vegetation, soils and rocks (with their structural attitude).

Aerial and satellite imagery: multi-spectral scanners. Sideways-looking airborne radar. Introduction to Digital Image Processing and GIS. Analysis of digital and raster data. Introduction to Earth Resource Satellites. Classification of landforms, land-cover and land use. Statics in field of geology and geomorphology.

Practical:

Terrain analysis using topographic maps, aerial photographs and satellite imageries. Techniques of photogeological mapping. Digital analysis of satellite data.