Fall Semester 2024
Reading assignments will be given in class. To make the class most effective, please at least skim the reading assignments prior to class. You will be expected to read all of the text by the end of the semester. Readings will be primarily from the text, Ulaby and Long, Microwave Radar and Radiometric Remote Sensing, University of Michigan Press, 2014. This is a book you will want for your permanent library.
Reading assignments:(subject to change)
Week 1: Chapter 1-2. Key ideas: basics of microwave remote sensing, EM properties
Week 2: Chapter 2-3. Key ideas: aperture antennas, array antennas
Week 3-4: Chapter 5. Key ideas: dielectrica properties, Radar scattering
Week 5-6: Chapter 6 & 8-9. Key ideas: radiometrty theory, absorbtion properties
Week 7-8: Chapter 7. Key ideas: radiometers, system noise figure, Delta T and measurement schemes
Week 9-10: Chapter 8, 10-12. Key ideas: scattering and emission from natural surfaces
Week 11: Chapter 14.Radar measurements,fading and signal variability, SNR, discrimination
Week 12-13: Chapter 14-15. Key ideas: SLAR and SAR
Week 14: Chapter 16-18: Key ideas: extracing geophysical information from microwave measurements
Homework assignments and due dates
Homework problems are optional and will not be graded. No solutions will be provided. However, homework assignments will be
good practice for the exams. (hint, hint) I encourage you to work together. There are no specific homework due dates.
Ch. 2: 1, 9, 14, 26, 36, 37, 42
Ch. 3: 1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9, 12, 13, 16, 18, 19, 20, 28, 29
Ch. 4: 1, 2
Ch. 5: 4, 5, 9, 10, 12, 13
Ch. 6: 2, 3, 6, 10, 13
Ch. 7: 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 8,
Ch. 8: 4, 6, 11, 12, 16
Ch. 10: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Ch. 11: 1, 4, 5
Ch. 13: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Ch. 14: 1, 2, 3, 6, 8, 11
Ch. 15: 1, 6, 8, 10
Ch. 16: 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 14, 15, 16, 17
Ch. 17: 1, 2
Reports and Presentation due dates: (subject to change)
(TBD) ~14 Nov: First draft of technology report
(TBD) ~20 Nov: Final draft of technology report
(TBD) ~2 Dec: Class presentations start, Final version of research report due
Midterm exam:
(TBD) 14 Oct: First midterm
Final exam:
2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Monday, December 16