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Course ID: | FORS 5650/7650-5650L/7650L. 3 hours. 2 hours lecture and 3 hours lab per week. | Course Title: | Aerial Photogrammetry in Forestry | Course Description: | The theory, techniques, and tools applicable to the use of aerial
photographs in forest resource management and decision-making. | Oasis Title: | AIR PHOTOS | Semester Course Offered: | Offered spring semester every year. | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| Course Objectives: | With this course, we hope to provide students with the theory
and tools to enable them to properly interpret aerial
photographs, and to understand how the use of aerial photographs
can facilitate forest resource management decision-making
process. The specific outcomes for students are:
1. Learn the proper usage of tools, instruments, and techniques
for describing forest resources captured in aerial photographs.
2. Describe the vegetation and environment that currently occupy
a site, and discuss the primary factors (human and non-human)
that have influenced the development of that site over time.
3. Measure and inventory the various forest resources ( e.g.
recreation, timber, water, and wildlife habitat) across multiple
scales (tree, stand, forest, and landscape).
4. Collect, process, analyze, project, and present spatial and
non-spatial data that are useful for decision-making and
implementing forest or recreational plans across multiple scales.
5. Access the precision, reliability, and validity of forest
resource estimates from aerial photographs.
6. Develop key elements of the management decision and
operations process, including: a) identify key management
problems facing decision makers/ owners, b) identify management
alternatives, c) assemble data and information to evaluate
alternatives using state-of-the-art analytical methods, d)
identify trade-offs among decision options, and e) develop and
implement plans to reach objectives at various geographic scales. | Topical Outline: | 1. Introduction to Aerial Photography
2. Films, filters, and the photographic process
3. Geometry / Trigonometry Review
4. Geometry of an Aerial Photograph
5. Stereoscopic Vision
6. Scale of an Aerial Photograph
7. Horizontal measurements: distance, bearings, areas.
8. Vertical measurements
9. Aerial photograph acquisition
10. Map Projections / Land Measurements
11. Photo interpretation
12. Aerial photo mensuration
13. Digital orthophotographs
14. High-resolution spatial imagery | Honor Code Reference: | You are expected to conduct yourself at all times in accordance
with the University Academic Honesty Policy. Violations of the
policy will be vigorously pursued and prosecuted. Please
consult the policy guidebook "A Culture of Honesty: Policies
and Procedures on Academic Honesty" available in Room 1-203. | |
Course ID: | FORS 5650/7650-5650L/7650L. 3 hours. 2 hours lecture and 3 hours lab per week. |
Course Title: | Aerial Photogrammetry in Forestry |
Course Description: | The theory, techniques, and tools applicable to the use of aerial
photographs in forest resource management and decision-making. |
Oasis Title: | AIR PHOTOS |
Semester Course Offered: | Offered spring semester every year. |
Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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Course Objectives: | With this course, we hope to provide students with the theory
and tools to enable them to properly interpret aerial
photographs, and to understand how the use of aerial photographs
can facilitate forest resource management decision-making
process. The specific outcomes for students are:
1. Learn the proper usage of tools, instruments, and techniques
for describing forest resources captured in aerial photographs.
2. Describe the vegetation and environment that currently occupy
a site, and discuss the primary factors (human and non-human)
that have influenced the development of that site over time.
3. Measure and inventory the various forest resources ( e.g.
recreation, timber, water, and wildlife habitat) across multiple
scales (tree, stand, forest, and landscape).
4. Collect, process, analyze, project, and present spatial and
non-spatial data that are useful for decision-making and
implementing forest or recreational plans across multiple scales.
5. Access the precision, reliability, and validity of forest
resource estimates from aerial photographs.
6. Develop key elements of the management decision and
operations process, including: a) identify key management
problems facing decision makers/ owners, b) identify management
alternatives, c) assemble data and information to evaluate
alternatives using state-of-the-art analytical methods, d)
identify trade-offs among decision options, and e) develop and
implement plans to reach objectives at various geographic scales. |
Topical Outline: | 1. Introduction to Aerial Photography
2. Films, filters, and the photographic process
3. Geometry / Trigonometry Review
4. Geometry of an Aerial Photograph
5. Stereoscopic Vision
6. Scale of an Aerial Photograph
7. Horizontal measurements: distance, bearings, areas.
8. Vertical measurements
9. Aerial photograph acquisition
10. Map Projections / Land Measurements
11. Photo interpretation
12. Aerial photo mensuration
13. Digital orthophotographs
14. High-resolution spatial imagery |
Honor Code Reference: | You are expected to conduct yourself at all times in accordance
with the University Academic Honesty Policy. Violations of the
policy will be vigorously pursued and prosecuted. Please
consult the policy guidebook "A Culture of Honesty: Policies
and Procedures on Academic Honesty" available in Room 1-203. |
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