Remote Sensing And Spatial Analysis At The University Of Arizona The Ph.D. minor in Remote Sensing and Spatial Analysis offers course work which ranges from the fundamentals of the physics and optics of remote sensing to image processing, pattern recognition, and geographic information systems. http://ag.arizona.edu/OALS/rssa/rssa.html
Extractions: The University of Arizona offers an unparalleled opportunity to pursue a multidisciplinary Ph.D. minor degree in remote sensing and related fields in spatial analysis. The range of courses offered in these fields is unmatched by any other institution in terms of breadth and depth. This is possible because a wide variety of academic departments and faculty participate in remote sensing and spatial analysis activities. To provide the student and fellow researchers an interlinked work and study environment, the remote sensing and spatial analysis program was set up through the university's interdisciplinary programs . It is administered by a committee of participating remote sensing and spatial analysis faculty. Yuma Arizona Produced by the Office of Arid Lands Studies . Maintenance by Wim van Leeuwen
Birchtown Archaeology - Material Cultural History Of Nova Scotia's Black Loyalis GIS and remote sensing technologies were used to explore and analyze the spatial and attribute information at Birchtown and to geo-correct the only known copy of a late eighteenth century land grants map of Birchtown, known as the Goulden Map. http://museum.gov.ns.ca/arch/sites/btown/pages/gis.html
Extractions: Global Positioning System (GPS) A Garmin GPS Plus III has been used at Birchtown. GPS points are collected for site location, and are now being collected at the ends and junctures of the many wall features at Birchtown. The points collected on the walls will be used to register the many graphical maps made of the walls of the course of field investigations. return to top Geographic Information System (GIS) The Black Loyalist Heritage Society manages their geographic information with Arcview GIS 3.2. As well, they have acquired the Image Analyst extension which is used to georeference modern and historic aerial photographs and geocorrect historic maps, such as the Goulden Map return to top Remote Sensing - Remote sensing data and technologies used at Birchtown include modern true colour and historic black and white vertical aerial photographs at scales of 1:10000 and 1:15840. As well, polynomial transformations (2 dimensional) were used to geometrically correct the Goulden Map, as opposed to orthocorrections (3 dimensional). In the course of research, it has become our opinion that orthocorrections are entirely unsuitable for historic map georeferencing as the levels of distortion required to fit the historical data to modern, geometrically accurate base data is variable across the image. Orthocorrection algorithms (and hence software) are suited to modern geographic images that have been acquired according to modern geometric standards.