NCGIA Remote Sensing Core Curriculum
Karen D. Kline and John E. Estes
Remote Sensing Research Unit
Department of Geography
University of California, Santa Barbara
Timothy W. Foresman
Department of Geography
University of Maryland Baltimore County
The NCGIA Remote Sensing Core Curriculum project is a logical outgrowth
from NCGIA's Research Initiative 12 "Remote Sensing and Geographic
Information Systems." NASA is currently sponsoring this project, which
has been accepted as an American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote
Sensing (ASPRS) education initiative and will be administered from their
headquarters in Bethesda, Maryland. This project will continue to produce
university-level educational materials to advance broad-based scientific
understanding of the field of remote sensing. The target audience,
instructors employing these materials, includes environmental engineers
and scientists, resource planners and managers, and geographers in
colleges and universities nationally and internationally. With the
rapidly increasing amounts of sensors and data, there is a real need for
educational materials stressing the need for integration of remote
sensing, GIS and GPS. The four volumes of the remote sensing core
curriculum will be distributed via the World Wide Web, CD-ROM, and
hardcopy. With the rise in Internet technology, the curriculum will be
updated regularly to reflect the most recent advances in remote sensing
technology.
Karen D. Kline and John E. Estes
Remote Sensing Research Unit
Department of Geography
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-4060
(805) 893-3845 phone
(805) 893-3703 fax
kline@geog.ucsb.edu or estes@geog.ucsb.edu
Timothy W. Foresman
Department of Geography
University of Maryland Baltimore County
Baltimore, MD 21228-5398
(410) 455-3847 phone
(410) 455-1056 fax
foresman@umbc.edu