GEOL 5631

Research Paper

Select a topic of interest to you that involves remote sensing.

A. Prepare a paragraph briefly describing the selected topic, for approval. Date given in the Syllabus.

B. Produce a type written report (10-14 double spaced pages including references) on the topic.

C. You must have at least one figure, picture, or table.

D. Reference citations must adhere to the format listed below. References used in the paper should include at least 3 peer reviewed journal articles from the following list of approved journals:

Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing - available at UHCL library

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing - some issues at UHCL library

International Journal of Remote Sensing - available at the Lunar and Planetary Institute library

Remote Sensing of Environment - available at the Lunar and Planetary Institute library

Journal of Geophysical Research - available at the Lunar and Planetary Institute library.

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing - available at the Lunar and Planetary Institute library.

Other journals must be approved upon request.

Other material may come from (in order of priority):

Symposium proceedings (e.g. Proceedings of the 12th Conference on Geologic Remote Sensing, Proceedings of IGARSS). Papers presented at symposia are not peer reviewed and therefore have lower merit in terms of the results being verified and authenticated.

Material such as bulletins of various societies would come next in order of importance.

Source material such as technical magazines (e.g. EOS, Aviation week, etc.) would be next in importance. Source material from the world wide web (internet) falls in this category.

Lastly, source material such as popular magazines, newspapers, etc should be discouraged.

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Reference citations must be according to the following format:

In the body of the paper you list the author(s) names followed by the year.

In the list of references do not use reference numbers, but instead list the authors

names, followed by the year, followed by the title and volume, page, etc.

Here are some examples:

In the body of the paper:

"This temporal classification technique was first developed by Badhwar and Thompson, 1983."

"From the digital data, the imaginary part of the refractive index was found to be 0.001 (Otterman, et al, 1982)"

References

Badhwar, G., and Thompson, D. R. 1983. Estimation of Emergence Data of spring Small Grains Using Landsat Spectral Data, Agronomy, 75, 75-78.

Otterman, J., Fraser, R. S. and Bahethi, D. F., 1982. Characterization of Tropospheric Desert Aerosols at Solar Wavelengths by Multispectral Radiometry from Landsat, J. Geophys. Res., 87, 1270-1278.

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The following general outline should be used for the paper:

1. Background (Historical setting; review of selected historical literature).

2. Review of selected recent journal articles (at least 3 during last 8 years) to

summarize the approach for the particular topic.

3. Discuss your views - e.g., what is good (or bad) about work in the

topic area; extensions that you might suggest.

4. Develop an example to illustrate the process/topic of interest - if

appropriate.

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Example Candidate Topics (or develop your own new topic)

*Use of Satellite Data in the study of snow and land ice in Antarctica.

*Radar Studies of Venus by the Magellan Spacecraft

*Thermal infrared Remote Sensing of Oil Slicks

*Doppler Weather Radar as applied to estimating Rain Rates

*Use of Satellite Radar Imagery in the study of Tropical Deforestation.

*Polarization as applied to a discipline problem.

*The Role of Remote Sensing in the global Warming Debate.

*The LIDAR In-Space Technology Experiment (LITE)

*Multitemporal Remote Sensing, An Overview.

*Using Remote Sensing to Monitor Deforestation in the Amazon Basin.

*Doppler Radar in the Detection and Analysis of Supercell Thunderstorms

*Remote sensing of air pollution.

*Quantitative Analysis of Suspended Sediment Concentrations

*Understanding the nature of Lunar Pyroclastic Deposits Using Remote Sensing

*Use of Space Shuttle Photography to Assess Aral Sea Size Reduction

*The Application of the Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer (AVIRIS) to Earth Resource Studies

*The Use of Space Shuttle Photography in Glaciology Research

*Remote Sensing Applications to Deforestation

*Use of Remote Sensing Imagery and GIS in Studying Bird Migration

*Calibration of AVIRIS Data

*Extracting Iron Abundances from Bidirectional Reflectance Measurements of the Surface of the Moon

Some topics are too broad, for example:

Geology and Remote Sensing - An Overview of Methods and Examples

Geographic Information Systems - Theory and Applications

A Review of Remotely Sensed Data and GIS for Wetlands Management

A Review of Remote Sensing as Applied to Suspended Sediments

Hydrologic Applications of Remote Sensing Data