Geography 2230A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Microsoft Powerpoint

• School: Western University
• Department: Geography
• Course: Geography 2230A/B
• Professor: Jinfei Wang

Document Summary

This note contains info from slides on owl: topic1 intro rs 2015 part 1 topic1 intro rs 2015 part 2 (lillesand and kiefer: chapter 1, pp. See course outline for reading and other information. Gathering data about a system without making physical contact. The science of obtaining information about an object, area, or phenomenon through data acquire,d with a device that is not in contact with the object, area or phenomenon under investigation. Example: the human eye, hearing, sense of smell, are all human examples. Chemical process: photograph: a scene which was detected as well as recorded on film, image: a scene which was detected electronically, digital image, satellite image, it may be photographically reproduced. List of the process of the remote sensing system, think as a list; energy source: the sun, passes through the atmosphere, interaction at the surface that the sensor picks up. Part 2 lec 2 sept 21, 2015. Light and sound are forms of electromagnetic energy.