SO503 Spring 2011

Lecture Syllabus (4/13/2011)

   

Course home page Labs  Shows & Readings (USNA only)

We will use EOS as the source for many of the readings for the course, and this syllabus will be updated as the semester progresses.

Tues (Mon schedule) 01/11/11 Course introduction  
Wed 01/12/11 Lab 1 starts  
Wed 01/19/11 1320 : CDR Sanabia

Research opportunities: LCDR Beattie, CDR Hager, CDR Smith

 

  
Mon 01/24/11 Lab  
Wed 01/26/11 1320: Woods research opportunities; MatLab version of Lab 1 (continues from Tuesday)  
Mon 01/31/11 Lab  
Wed 02/02/11 EOS
  • Understand what is in a typical issue of EOS, and how it differs from a journal.
Mon 02/07/11 Visit these web sites, and come to class ready to discuss the functions of a scientific society:
  • Discuss the role of scientific professional societies in holding meetings, publishing papers, and publishing newsletters.
  • Describe the funding of scientific research with grants, and the difference between "hard" and "soft" money.
  • Understand the role of "big science" versus individual research projects.
  • Know the major funding agencies for earth sciences: NSF and ONR, and the difference between NRL and ONR.
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    Wed 02/09/11 Anatomy of a Scientific Paper
    • Discuss the parts of a scientific paper
    • Discuss the citation style used in science, and the preponderance of journal articles in the references cited
    • Discuss the weaving of geology, biology, climatology, and GIS in this paper's tracing of past climates and snakehead distribution.
    • Paper analysis checklists

    We need groups of two students to discuss: Abstract (),  Methodology (), Results () , Summary and conclusions ()

    ONE student will discuss: Introduction/Background ()  , Graphics (), References () 
    Mon 02/14/11  x-week Time series analysis
    • Understand the definition of a time series.
    • Know the use of filtering, detrending, and anomaly computation
    • Understand the use of cross correlation.
    • Interpret a correlogram, in terms of time series periodicity and what the lags mean.
    Wed 02/16/11 x-week In class exercise  
    Wed 02/23/11 Satellites--Physics Today
    • Discuss the types of resolution with satellite imagery, and the tradeoffs required to get an acceptable S/N ratio with the sensors.
    • Discuss the electromagnetic spectrum and its effect on remote sensing
    Mon 02/28/11 Satellites  
    Wed 03/02/11 Satellites Understand the following (background readings in the MICRODEM help file, version. 11.3.2 or better
    • Principal components
    • Supervised classification
    • Unsupervised classification
    • Multispectral versus hyperspectral imagery
    Mon 03/07/11    
    Wed 03/09/11 Scientific presentations  
    Mon 03/21/11    
    Wed 03/23/11    
    Mon 03/28/11    
    Wed 03/30/11 Guest Lecture  
    Mon 04/04/11 x-week Guest Lecture  
    Wed 04/06/11 x-week Reading text files in Matlab  
    Mon 04/11/11    
    Wed 04/13/11 --Paper reference list due    
    Mon 04/18/11    
    Wed 04/20/11    
    Mon 04/25/11    
    Wed 04/27/11    
    Mon 05/02/11 --Paper due