Remote Sensing Institute at Michigan Tech: Minor

Interdisciplinary Minor in Remote Sensing

Remote sensing is detection and measurement from afar. It is much more than just instrumentation or measurement tools, and includes a perspective of investigation that incorporates many different disciplines. The remote sensing minor is for students who want an entry to a promising research and employment field which typically requires graduate training. Most of the Remote Sensing faculty have active research programs which require student workers and this experience is good professional training. The field is interdisciplinary and extremely broad and team based, including specialists in atmospheric physics and chemistry, biological and earth sciences, electrical engineering, forestry and ecology, civil and environmental engineering, oceanography, limnology, image and signal analysis, astronomy and computer sciences. The Remote Sensing Institute currently has faculty members from 9 different MTU departments and has a number of advanced lab facilities as part of a NASA center of excellence.

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Interdisciplinary Minor in Remote Sensing
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Requirements of a Remote Sensing Minor

Required Classes 4 cr

A new requirement that students take either FW4540 or GE4250 has been added.

UN4000: 1 credit.

FW4540 Remote Sensing of the Environment (fall semester)

or GE4250 Remote Sensing Fundamentals (spring semester), 3-credits each

Elective Classes (12 credits total):

Data Acquisition and Processing classes: 3-6 cr

GE4250 was added to this list of electives. Students choosing FW4540 as their required course may select GE4250 as an elective. (Students choosing GE4250 as their required course may not also select GE4250 as an elective.)

GE4250 Remote Sensing Fundamentals (spring semester)

FW4540 Remote Sensing of the Environment (fall semester)

EE 2150 Intro to Signal Processing 3 cr.

PH 2230 Electronics for Scientists 4 cr.

PH 3210 Geometrical and Physical Optics 4 cr.

EE 3140 Electromagnetics 4 cr.

PH 5630 Imaging Systems 2 cr.

EE 4243 Physics of Microwave Devices 3 cr

EE 4252 Digital Signal Processing 4 cr

EE 4254 Image Processing 3 cr

EE 5500 Statistical Signal Processing 3 cr

EE 5520 Fourier Optics 3 cr

FW 5560 Digital Image Processing: A Remote Sensing Perspective 4 cr

PH 5950 Graduate Electronics for Scientists 3 cr

Data Management Classes: 3-6 cr

CS 2090 Special Topics in CS 3 cr

FW 3540 Remote Sensing & Geographic Information Systems for Resource Management 4 cr

CS 3621 Intro to Computing with Geometry 3 cr

MA 3730 Survey Methods and Data Analysis 3 cr

GE 4160 Subsurface GIS 3 cr

MA 4515 Intro to Partial Differential Equations 3 cr

MA 4610 Numerical Linear Algebra 3 cr

CS 4611 Intro to Computer Graphics 3 cr

MA 4710 Regression Analysis 3 cr

CE 5661 GIS Applications 3 cr

FW 5550 Geographic Information Systems for Resource Management 4 cr

MA 5701 Statistical methods 3 cr

MA 5741 Multivariate Analysis 3 cr

MA 5980 Applied Linear Algebra 3 cr

Data Analysis and Applications classes: 3-6 cr

Students choosing GE4250 as their required course may selecte FW4540 as an elective. (Students may not choose FW4540 as both their required course and an elective.) Students may select 1 credit of UN4000 as an elective in addition to the 1 credit of
UN4000 under Required Courses.

FW4540 and UN4000

GE 2640 Intro to Meteorology 3 cr

GE 3300 Oceanography 3 cr

CE 3610 Hydrology 3 cr

GE 4170 Volcanic Clouds 4 cr

GE 4150 Natural Hazards 3 cr

CE 4504 Air Quality Engineering and Science 3 cr

CE 4501 Environmental Eng Chemical Processes 4 cr

PH 4640 Atmospheric Science 3 cr

GE 5150 Advanced Natural Hazards 3 cr

GE 5160 Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere 3 cr

GE 5170 Remote Sensing of the Earth's Surface 3 cr