1. Summary - end of term Lab Monday: 4 April return of assignments Lecture exam: 5 April, projects by end of term: April 6 Lecture evaluation today at the end Lab evaluation - Monday

2. Exam – Tuesday (5-158) 20% - 20 questions
Covering all course lectures – including guest lectures
Sample question:
what is the general purpose behind image fusion.
A: To combine higher spatial information in one band with higher spectral information in another dataset to create ‘synthetic’ higher resolution multispectral datasets and images
A: To combine higher resolution PAN with lower resolution spectral bands to simulate higher resolution multispectral images

3. High resolution sensors – summary
Date Sensor Bands Pixel Swath Orbit Data
1960 Corona PAN
1999 Ikonos RGBN / bit
2001 Quickbird RGBN /
2002 SPOT PAN
2004 Formosat /
2005 Cartosat
2006 ALOS-PRISM
2007 Worldview /
2008 Terrasar MW
2008 Rapideye
2008 Geoeye /
2009 Worldview /

5. Earth Observing 1 – EO1: ALI and Hyperion

6. Since 2009

7. 40 Years of Continuous Landsat Global Land Observation
Landsat 1 was launched July 23, 1972 (MSS)
Landsat 2 was launched Jan 22, 1975 (MSS)
Landsat 3 was launched March 5, 1978 (MSS)
Landsat 4 was launched July 16, 1982 (TM)
Landsat 5 was launched March 1, 1984 (TM)
Landsat 6 was launched October 5, 1993, but never reached orbit
Landsat 7 was launched April 15, 1999, May 2003 SLC-Off (ETM+)
Landsat 8 is scheduled for launch in December 2012

8. Landsat Data Continuity Mission: Landsat 8 and OLI (2011-2012)

9. OLI (Operational Land Imager) Spectral Bands
Data bands will be 12 bit: show better details in shadows

11. Further courses
GEOG413: Advanced GIS – Winter 2012
GEOG499: Independent Studies (3-6 credits)
GEOG430: Undergraduate thesis (3-6 credits)

12. The power of remote sensing: Penguins from space (penguin poop)
Pan-sharpened Landsat TM image showing guano stains of an emperor penguin colony in Halley Bay, Antarctica