Remote Sensing of Atmospheres and Oceans

ATOC 5235

Understanding environmental problems; making effective use of technical information; applicable to general environmental problems; applicable to air quality issues; applicable to water resource issues; applicable to natural hazards.


Examines fundamentals of radiative transfer; extinction and scattering-based passive remote sensing; emission- based passive remote sensing; principles of active remote sensing; multi-sensor and multi-wave-length approaches to satellite remote sensing; and future satellite systems and validation programs. PASO graduate core course requirement.