{"id":359,"date":"2023-02-27T10:31:09","date_gmt":"2023-02-27T18:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/meddenslab\/?page_id=359"},"modified":"2026-04-02T14:45:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T21:45:25","slug":"applied-remote-sensing","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/meddenslab\/courses\/applied-remote-sensing\/","title":{"rendered":"Applied Remote Sensing"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"wsu-article-header \">\r\n\t<h1 class=\"wsu-article-header__title\">\r\n\t\tSOE 486\/586: Applied Remote Sensing &#8211; From Drones to Satellites\t<\/h1>\r\n\t\t<\/header>\r\n\n\n<div class=\"wsu-row wsu-row--single\" >\r\n    \n<div class=\"wsu-column\"  style=\"\">\r\n\t\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Course Description<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Use remote sensing to measure changes in forests, plants, wildlife, wildfire, crops, and geologic features. Develop skills in analyzing and applying data from satellites, drones, airplanes, and lidar; and relate these data to actual measures on the ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Prerequisites:&nbsp;<\/strong>Instructor approval required and previous or concurrent enrollment in SOIL_SCI 368 and\/or SOIL_SCI 374.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\r\n\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wsu-row wsu-row--single\" >\r\n    \n<div class=\"wsu-column\"  style=\"\">\r\n\t\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Materials<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Textbook<\/strong>: Wegmann, M., Leutner, B., &amp; Dech, S. (Eds.) (2016). Remote sensing and&nbsp;GIS for ecologists: using open source software. Pelagic Publishing Ltd. Available at the Pullman Bookie, from Amazon, or at <a href=\"http:\/\/book.ecosens.org\/RSEbook\">Ecosens.org<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Software<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>R &nbsp;and R-Studio<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>QGIS<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Office 360 (including Excel)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<\/div>\r\n\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wsu-row wsu-row--single\" >\r\n    \n<div class=\"wsu-column\"  style=\"\">\r\n\t\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Course Syllabus<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information regarding this course, see the <a href=\"https:\/\/s3.wp.wsu.edu\/uploads\/sites\/2472\/2023\/02\/Syllabus_SOE486-586_Meddens_230104.pdf\">syllabus<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\r\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":38066,"featured_media":0,"parent":345,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"wsuwp_university_location":[],"wsuwp_university_org":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/meddenslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/359"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/meddenslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/meddenslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/meddenslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38066"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/meddenslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/meddenslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":648,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/meddenslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/359\/revisions\/648"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/meddenslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/meddenslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/meddenslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/meddenslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/meddenslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_location?post=359"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_org","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/meddenslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_org?post=359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}