PGTA computer practical support Hendy Fatchurohman
Department of Geography
University College London
[Educational Aims and Objectives of the Course] [Course workload and assessment] [Timetable 2025-26] [Reading List]
London from the International Space Station, August 2022, taken by astronaut Samantha Cristoferetti.
To enable the students to:
- Understand the nature of remote sensing data and how they are acquired
- Understand different types of remote sensing instruments and their missions
- Understand basic image representation and processing
- Understand how Earth Observation data can be combined with other sources of data and data techniques (e.g. GIS)
- Understand how EO data can be used in environmental science (particularly via classification and monitoring)
- Develop practical skills in these areas, which may be useful in planning of dissertations
- Develop links with the second year course on Geographic Information Systems Science and with othet courses as appropriate (e.g. hydrology, environmental systems)
| Component | Hours |
|---|---|
| Lectures | 10 |
| Private Reading | 80 |
| Supervised Laboratory Work (Computing) | 20 |
| Independent Laboratory Work (Computing) | 20 |
| Required Written Work | 10 |
| TOTAL | 140 |
Usual range 100-150 for 1/2 course unit
- 100% Assessed Practical (3000 words) - submission date standard 2nd-year submission date i.e. Mon 27th April 2026 (12 noon).
- For details of the coursework, please see https://github.com/UCL-EO/GEOG0027_Coursework
Thursday Practicals will be in two groups, set at the beginning of term.
Tuesday lectures are in Bedford Way (20) - Room: A5.02 and Thursday practical sessions will be in the North West Wing Room 110 ('Unix lab')
ENVI 6.0 is available on the machines in NWW 110.
Google Earth Engine is accessed from within IPython notebook. These can be easily run on UCL jupyter hub, accessible using a standard UCL login. The notebooks can also be used wthin a open-source conda distribution, though setting up all the libraries can be cumbersome and staff will not have the time to support this.
- Jensen, John R. (2006) Remote Sensing of the Environment: an Earth Resources Perspective, Hall and Prentice, New Jersey, 2nd ed.
- Jensen, John R. (1995, 2004) Introductory Digital Image Processing: A Remote Sensing Perspective (Prentice Hall Series in Geographic Information Science)
- Jones, H. G and Vaughan, R. A. (2010) Remote Sensing of Vegetation, OUP, Oxford.
- Lillesand, T., Kiefer, R. and Chipman, J. (2004) Remote Sensing and Image Interpretation. John Wiley and Sons, NY, 5th ed.
- Mather, P. (2004) Computer processing of remotely sensed images: an introduction