Instructors:

Prof. Weimin Ju (Room B433, Kunshan Building; juweimin@nju.edu.cn)
Prof. Jingming Chen (Room B404, Kunshan Building; chenjm@nju.edu.cn)
Associate Prof. Guang Zheng (Room B412, Kunshan Building; zhengguang1982@gmail.com)
Associate Prof. Wenfeng Zhan (Room B414, Kunshan Building; zhanwenfeng@foxmail.com)

Course Objectives: 
This course is offered to undergraduate students in the third and fourth years who major in physical geography, remote sensing and GIS, and other related disciplines. It will cover the basic principles of land surface remote sensing, spectral signatures of land targets, satellite sensors, methods for retrieving land surface parameters using optical and thermal remote sensing data, and applications of these parameters to studying land surface processes.

Course Assessment: 
The assessment of student performance will be made according to a mid-term and a final exam, class participation and assignments. Their percentages are assigned as follows:
1. Class participation (10%)
2. Mid-term exam (20%) 
3. Assignments (30%) 
4. Final exam (40%)

Course Readings:
Reading assignments for this course are delivered in class regarding the lecture schedule topics. Here are some reference books:

1. Lillesand, T. M., R. W. Kiefer, and J. W. Chipman, 2008. Remote Sensing and Image Interpretation. Sixth edition.  ISBN 978-0470-05245-7
2. Campbell, J. B. 2011. Introduction to Remote Sensing. Guilford Press, (5h Ed.), ISBN: 978-1-59385-319-8. 
3. Gaylon S. Campbell and John M. Norman, 1997. An Introduction to Environmental Physics, Springer (2nd Ed.), ISBN:0-387-94937-2

Tentative lecture topics:
(1) Definition and history of remote sensing
(2) Spectral signatures of vegetation, soil, water, and snow; 
(3) Satellite sensors available for land surface remote sensing;
(4) Vegetation indices and their usefulness and limitations; 
(5) Algorithms for retrieving vegetation parameters using multispectral data;
(6) Retrieval of vegetation parameters using Lidar remote sensing data; 
(7) Retrieval of vegetation structural parameter using multi-angle remote sensing data.
(8) Retrieval of ground surface temperature from remote sensing; 
(9) Calculation of carbon flux using remote sensing data;  
(10) Calculation of carbon flux using remote sensing data;  
(11) Calculation of water flux using remote sensing data;  
(12) Calculation of water flux using remote sensing data;