SIG Remote Sensing

Code: GEO10080M

6 ECTS

Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours

Scientific Area: Geology

Teaching languages: Portuguese

Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese

Presentation

This curricular unit has an eminently practical character and presents the fundamentals of RS & GIS methods, allowing students, through a practical project, to develop their spatial analysis skills with the most adavanced tools that are currently available.

Sustainable Development Goals

Educação de qualidade - Assegurar a educação inclusiva, e equitativa e de qualidade, e promover oportunidades de aprendizagem ao longo da vida para todos.

Inovação infraestrutura - Construir infraestrutura resiliente, promover a industrialização inclusiva e sustentável, e fomentar a inovação.

Ação contra a mudança global do clima - Tomar medidas urgentes para combater a mudança climática e seus impactos (*).

Learning Goals

Expected outcomes: understanding the potential of the technologies of automatic handling of georeferenced
data in studies in the field of geosciences.
Ability to create and execute a project which includes the basic treatment of Geoscientific information using
GIS tools.

GENERAL CONCEPTS
Graphic representations; Projection Systems; Georeferencing.
Spatial data informatics.
Raster and vector data.
Organization of information.
Data types and structures.

GIS
Symbology and labels.
Creation of vector data.
Treatment and vector data.
Creating Layouts.

RS
Aerial, drone and satellite photography, principles of image acquisition and processing.
Orthorectified and stereoscopic images.
Creation of digital elevation and terrain models.

Project
Problematization, design and implementation of a DR & GIS project applied to geosciences.
Final report writing.

Teaching Methods

The lectures are only a quarter of classes, giving preference to a theoretical and practical concepts that will be
introduced and explained, based on exercises that students have to perform in the classroom.
The evaluation is continuous and is done through the delivery of the project report (60%) and its presentation and discussion (40%). The evaluation at the examination epoch is base on the delivery of the report of a proposed project (60%) and the making of a video presenting the conclusions of the project (40%).