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Remote Sensing Technologies

Course Description: This course focuses on the fundamentals of remote sensing and its geographic applications. Lectures will concentrate on the core concepts and techniques involved in acquiring and analyzing remote sensing data. Hands-on computer-based exercises will be designed to help students gain practical experience in processing and analyzing remote sensing data. Students are expected to complete a project that applies remote sensing techniques to solve a real-world problem.
Credit hours: 3
Objectives of the course :

Understanding the principles and techniques of remote sensing and its applications in processing and analyzing satellite data, tracking and monitoring natural resources in different environments, forest monitoring, soil mapping, land use, analyzing local and global environmental change, and monitoring natural hazards, among others.

Course outputs :
  • Understands the principles of remote sensing applications.
  • Understands remote sensing data, its processing and analysis approaches, and its relationship to applications.
  • Understands remote sensing applications in natural resource inventory, natural hazard monitoring, and change detection analysis in various geography fields.
  • Computers are used to process and analyze satellite imagery.
  • Implements applied projects using remote sensing data in various applications.
  • Evaluates application results and the benefits derived from them.
  • Adheres to integrity, values, and professional and human ethics when dealing with various issues and problems.
  • Develop professional development plans in learning and professional development, and participate in academic and professional strategic decision-making.
  • Participates collaboratively and constructively in managing environmental problem-related tasks in a professional manner with high autonomy, and leads diverse research teams with high responsibility, contributing to enhancing the quality of community life through remote sensing applications.
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  • Last updated: 2026-05-14

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