UMH - ENVIRONMENTAL REMOTE SENSING

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ENVIRONMENTAL REMOTE SENSING

Course

Code: 1382

Degree: Master's in Analysis and Management of Mediterranean Ecosystems

Faculty of Experimental Sciences

Year: Year 1 of Master's in Analysis and Management of Mediterranean Ecosystems

Semester: Spring

Type: Elective

Language: Spanish

ECTS credits: 3

Lecture: 1.5

Laboratory: 1.5

Hours: 75

Directed: 30

Shared: 15

Autonomous: 30

Course instructors are responsible for the course content descriptions in English.

Description

Objectives:
Application of the knowledge of spatial remote sensing and field radiometry for the study of natural and human environments.

Descriptors:
Remote sensing concepts. Spatial remote sensing. Field radiometry. Environmental applications of remote sensing.

Faculty

Name	Coordinator	Lecture	Laboratory
NAVARRO PEDREÑO, JOSE	■	■	■
MELENDEZ PASTOR, IGNACIO		■	■

Professional interest

Basic tool to know the environment and its management.

Competencies and learning outcomes

General competencies

Understand the function, structure, and dynamics of ecosystems, both terrestrial and marine, and territories that are traditionally manipulated to exploit their resources.
Understand and value diversity in all the senses of living things, not only referring to other organisms, but also in social and cultural diversity.
Be capable of designing and developing sustainable strategies for Mediterranean ecosystem management in both protected natural areas as well as areas of human influence.
Assess global change, analyzing the speed of the processes and changes caused by human activity within the territory.
Manage in practice, in order to solve environmental problems, the technology and methods that currently range from genomic and proteomic analysis in organisms all the way to remote sensing technologies.
Develop the capacity for multidisciplinary teamwork that adds specialists from diverse competence areas of the environment.
Be capable of solving environmental problems related with business and governmental activities.
Oral and written communication skills in English.
Skills related with computing tools and information and communication technologies, as well as accessing online databases, such as scientific literature, patent databases, and legislation.
Oral and written communication skills in Spanish. Capacity to produce and defend projects in the field of scientific research.

Specific competencies

Understand and be capable of assessing the uses and demands of water for various purposes within the Mediterranean context.
Identify improvement strategies for water management.
Understand the technical tools for sustainable water use and their potential for improvement and innovation.
Be capable of writing a treatment and purification project for urban and industrial water based on new technical criteria and environmental sustainability.
Understand the legislation applicable to the production and management of various types of waste.
Be capable of developing good technical management of various types of waste.
Identify and quantify environmental and legal aspects for environmental planning and the territorial prospective.
Capability to analyze, implement, and adapt an environmental management system to various types of businesses and official organisms.
Be able to characterize the environmental function and situation of businesses and institutions.
Understand and apply international ISO and EMAS standards concerning environmental certification.
Be able to prepare an environmental impact study and new environmental correction proposals.
Understand and be capable of applying the methodology for carrying out a strategic environmental assessment.
Acquire the capacity to understand, analyze, and manage environmental pollution problems and search for solutions that minimize them from the environmental, application, and economic points of view.
Be able to propose corrective measures that minimize air, water, and soil pollution.
Apply digital/statistical processing techniques to aerial and satellite imagery for analyzing territory and determining land use.
Develop innovative planning proposals based on the advance of knowledge and the application of new technologies that permit proper handling and management of spaces and sustainable territorial development.
Understand the viability of organic farming as a means of sustainable management in rural areas and new crop systems.
Identify and assess aspects related with the biota and environmental management as keys to furthering the study of natural and anthropic environments.

Objectives (Learning outcomes)

To study the interaction between the electromagnetic radiation and the matter for its use on environmental studies.
To know the application of remote sensing and the field radiometry for the study of the natural and human environments.
Development of applications to studies of pollution, desertification and land management and biodiversity.

Teaching units

Basic bibliography

Software

Geomedia Professional 06.01.05.19
IDRISI Taiga

Methodology and grading

Methodology

Case studies: Learning through the analysis of actual or simulated cases in order to interpret and resolve them by employing various alternative solution procedures.
Lecture: Pass on knowledge and activate cognitive processes in students, encouraging their participation.
Problem-based learning: Develop active learning strategies through problem solving that promote thinking, experimentation, and decision making in the student.
Project-based learning: Realization of a project to solve a problem, applying acquired learning and promoting abilities related to planning, design, performing activities, and reaching conclusions.
Solving exercises and problems: Exercise, test, and apply previous knowledge through routine repetition.

Grading

Continuous evaluation by solving problems and practices

Academics: ENVIRONMENTAL REMOTE SENSING

General competencies

Specific competencies

Objectives (Learning outcomes)

Lecture topics

Teaching units

Course contents

Basic bibliography

Complementary bibliography

Links

Software

Methodology

Grading