Objective
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To better understand basic remote sensing concepts,
procedures, and data requirements.
You have been hired by the National Park Service
to study the effects of acid rain in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park,
the largest remaining old-growth red spruce (Pices rubens) and Fraser
fir (Abies fraseri) ecosystem in the world. You have been commissioned
to use a remote sensing process to perform a baseline study and estimate total
biomass within an area totaling 40 square miles.
After reading Chapter
1 of the text, think about how you would conduct this research and then answer
the following questions:
1. State the problem using a remote sensing
system and methodology of your choice.
2. State your
hypothesis based on the problem.
3. Identify any
in situ data requirements.
4. Identify any
collateral data you would need.
5. Discuss any
biophysical and/or hybrid variables that would be measured and
studied in your research.
6. Discuss the role
of resolution (spectral, spatial, and temporal) in your study.
7. Discuss the advantages/disadvantages
of analog (visual) image processing vs. digital image processing
techniques in your research.
Feel free to be creative in your answers. The preferred length of this assignment
is one page (single-spaced).
Last Modified: September 16, 2004