Course Descriptions
Graduate - 600 level courses
GRS GE 612 Global Climate and Environmental Impact
Prereq: CAS GE 101 or equivalent. Regimes of climates on continental and macroregional scales; classification, geographic distriubution, and climatic thresholds of given environments. Impact of climatic fluctuations affecting activities of humankind. Modeling global climate to permit predicting change on regional and global scales ins introduced.
GRS GE 640 Digital Image Processing Remote Sensing
Prereq: CAS GE 302 or equivalent. At least introductory statistics (and preferably multivariate statistics) recommended. This course pursues both the algorithms involved in processing remote sensing images and their application. Topics include preprocessing, image transformations, image classification and segmentation, spectral mixture analysis, and change detection. Examples cover a wide range of environmental applications of remote sensing. Students do a project. Meets with GE 440.
GRS GE 645 Physical Models of Remote Sensing
Prereq: CAS GE 302 or equivalent. Devoted to understanding the physical processes involved in remote sensing. Emphasis based on topics of radiative transfer in the atmosphere, at the surface, and in sensors. Reflectance modeling, advanced sensor systems, and geometric effects. A short research paper is required.
GRS GE 648 Remote Sensing of Vegetation
Prereq: CAS GE 302 or equivalent. Examines the use of remote sensing to study vegetation. Topics addressed include resource inventory and evaluation for forests and agriculture; ecosystem processes like primary productivity and biogeochemical cycles; and spectural reflectance measurement and models. A research paper is required (offered alternate years).
GRS GE 683 Geodynamics II: Fluids and Fluid Transport
Prereq: CAS MA 124, MA 127 or MA 129. and CAS PY 211 and CAS ES 360 or consent of instructor. Large and small scale phenomena in oceanic. atmospheric, and land surface fluids. Properties of gases and liquids; surface body forces; statics; flow analysis; continuity and momentum conservation. Darcy's Law; potential, open channel geostraphic flow; dimensional analysis; diffusion; turbulence (offered alternate years).
GRS GE 699 Teaching College Geography I
The goals, contents, and methods of instruction in geography. General teaching-learning issues. Required of all teachiing fellows. 2 cr, 1st & 2nd sem.
