Microwave Remote Sensing (COMS7311)
Course level
Postgraduate Coursework
Units
2
Duration
One Semester
Class hours
2 Lecture hours
1 Tutorial hour
1 Contact hour
Prerequisite
(ELEC3100 or ELEC7101) + (ELEC3004 or ELEC7312)
Restricted
Minimum quota: 15
Assessment methods
Assignments, examinations
Course enquiries
Until advised please contact School of ITEE (enquiries@itee.uq.edu.au )
Study Abroad
This course is pre-approved for Study Abroad and Exchange students.
This course is not currently offered, please contact the school or faculty of your program.
Course description
(Offered on an occasional basis.) Physical fundamentals, energy sources for remote sensing, review of physical properties of EM waves, polarisation, coherence, radiation laws, beamwidth resolution, propagation media characteristics. Polarimetry: Poincare sphere, Stokes vectors, partial polarization, scattering matrix, covariance matrix, optimal polarisations, polarimetric decompositions and their physical meanings. Real world Sensing: scattering, reflection and emission mechanisms from real surfaces, roughness, speckle, SAR principle, parameters, resolution, imaging, correcting and calibrating radar imagery. Infometric and Topographic SAR. Radar image interpretation. Radar hardware: antennas, receivers, noise and sensitivity, system performance, calibration.