Practice and Theory Intro for Satellite Remote Sensing

Satellite remote sensing is an interdisciplinary topic involving physics, chemistry, signal processing, statistics, and many other subject-specific fields. This course aims to be the gentle introduction which does not trade off any necessary theoretical or practical critical information in the process of introducing students/professionals to the satellite remote sensing fields.
Students will be provided with valuable insights and tips while maneuvering through geographic information system (GIS) based concepts, types of data they can retrieve, key satellite remote sensing data providers, and the introduction to the nature of light that we can exploit to understand the world better. These topics are provided in a combination of lecture and practical walk-throughs in a screen-recorded format. This will both help in following the lecture easily, and also in advancing beyond the lectured material.

After completing this introduction, you will enter from the ajar door of satellite remote sensing and have a solution-oriented approach to your chosen subject while searching, retrieving, using, and visualizing satellite remote sensing data. All will be done in publicly available data and open source free of charge software and web-based services. Since this is an introduction, no GIS, remote sensing, science, or coding background is required. You will be able to access software (QGIS) by simply downloading it, the data by registering important platforms in a minute freely, and visualize them again using QGIS. The coding boost will be provided in another future course after the completion of this introduction.
The students successfully completing this course will have the necessary practice in mapping/using vector and raster data in QGIS, downloading desired satellite data products, and doing basic operations on them. They will be able to build upon these fundamental skills easily, but more advanced topics will also be provided in the following courses.