1. U N I V E R S I T À D E G L I S T U D I D I M I L A N O C17 SC for Environmental Applications and Remote Sensing I M S C I A Soft Computing for Environmental Applications and Remote Sensing Remote sensing: Space and Earth Systems and technologies Fabio Scotti - Manuel Roveri Università degli studi, Milano, Italy

2. C17 SC for Environmental Applications and Remote Sensing I M S C I A Fabio Scotti - Manuel Roveri Introduction This lecture introduces the main sensors and systems used in the remote sensing applications First of all we will present the systems used in space applications

3. C17 SC for Environmental Applications and Remote Sensing I M S C I A Fabio Scotti - Manuel Roveri Overview of Satellite systems Our goal is to survey the most important satellite systems, the characteristics of the sensors and images they can produce, in particular: –important historical satellite systems; –the LANDSAT systems; –the SPOT systems. Please read carefully the tutorial L2_SatelliteSystems.pdf (*) linked in the course page. (*) Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA

4. C17 SC for Environmental Applications and Remote Sensing I M S C I A Fabio Scotti - Manuel Roveri Others Satellite systems Let us now survey few others satellite systems Please read carefully the tutorial L2_SatelliteSystems2.pdf (*) linked in the course page. The file contains a very interesting quiz suitable to understand how to correctly “handle” and interpret the images. (*) Canada Centre for Remote Sensing

5. C17 SC for Environmental Applications and Remote Sensing I M S C I A Fabio Scotti - Manuel Roveri The radar systems Let us now survey the basics of one of the most important systems in Remote Sensing: the RADAR. Our goal is to understand the peculiarities of the radar images: –definition; –noise; –distortion; –appearance of the target. Please read carefully the tutorial L2_Radar.pdf (*) linked in the course page. (*) Canada Centre for Remote Sensing

6. C17 SC for Environmental Applications and Remote Sensing I M S C I A Fabio Scotti - Manuel Roveri End of the lecture