The School of Natural Resources & Environment offers graduate and undergraduate courses that offer students the opportunity to study Spatial Analysis & Ecosystem Classification issues. These courses ........ |
Introduction to Environmental Analysis
NRE 239 |
Staff
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4 credits |
Offered Winter Semester |
Applications of maps, aerial photographs and computer methods in natural resource inventory, environmental monitoring, and ecosystem analysis. Home Page: https://coursetools.ummu.umich.edu/2001/winter/nre/239/001.nsf
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Principles of GIS
NRE 420 |
Professor Dan Brown
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4 credits |
Offered Winter Semester |
This class will provide a firm understanding of the issues that affect the use of geographic information systems (GIS) for application, research and planning in natural resources. Students will learn to conceptualize and implement geographic data management and analysis for research and application. Home Page: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~danbrown/nre420/
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Remote Sensing of Environment
NRE 441 |
Professor Kathleen Bergen
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4 credits |
Offered Winter Semester |
Use of aircraft and satellite remote sensors for inventory, monitoring and assessment of Earths ever changing resources. Problem analysis to determine which remote sensing systems can supply needed data and determination of cost-effective approaches to problem solution. Case studies from several fields.
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Natural Resource Measurements
NRE 445 |
Professor Folwer |
4 credits |
Offered XX Semester |
Basic principles and applications of measurements and analysis to natural resource problem solving. The two permanent modules are general measurement (measurement theory and location, angle, distance, aerial photograph, ecological, and recreation measurements), and forest measurement (tree, product, and stand measurements). Two other modules vary and cover topics such as land measurement, nonparametric statistics, sequential sampling, and wildlife techniques.
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GIS and Landscape Modeling
NRE 501-039 |
Professor Dan Brown |
1-4 credits |
Offered Fall Semester |
The goal of this class is to explore various approaches to modeling landscape pattern and change. The course will necessarily move between social and ecological processes and applications of the models, always with a geographical focus. During the course we will read about different modeling approaches, discuss applications of models and work on 5-6 exercises. We will explore GIS suitability models through a number of statistical and computational approaches. Home Page: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~danbrown/nre501a/
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Geography: Spatial Analysis, Theory and Practice
NRE 530 |
Professor Sandra Arlinghaus |
3 credits |
Offered Fall Semester |
This course is intended to equip students with knowledge about mapping as an important tool for environmental analysis. The geographical theory of spatial relations is developed in the context of individual student projects. Participants learn to assemble, analyze, and present environmental information from a variety of visual perspectives, which, when drawn together, present a unified picture of a real-world problem. Students acquire technical skills in both mapping and spatial analysis. A user-friendly GIS is utilized in the course with knowledge of its operation applied to individual projects. In addition, participants are exposed to a wide range of data sources which they also use for their projects. Each student is required to prepare a final project consisting of maps, text, and possibly other graphs that work interactively. An oral presentation is used to receive helpful feedback from course participants.
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GIS and Natural Resource Applications
NRE 540 |
Shannon Brines, Instructor |
3 credits |
Offered Fall/Winter Semesters |
NRE 540 is a project based course ideal for graduate students who would like to work on part oftheir thesis/dissertation research or master's project that requires GIS and spatial analysis. It is intended to help one expand his or her existing skills developed in an introductory level GIS course. As such, "NRE 420: Priciples of GIS" (or equivalant) is a pre-requisite for NRE 540. Students, working individually or with a partner, take a project from start to finish. Grades are based upon periodic reviews of a student's project journal and a project proposal, project abstract, project poster presentation, and paper project. Home Page: http://www.snre.umich.edu/NRE540/
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Energy Flow Processes in Remote Sensing
NRE 541 |
Staff |
3 credits |
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Energy flow profiles in optical, thermal, and microwave sensors with emphasis on remote monitoring of thermal energy balance in various terrains; digital processing of remotely sensed data treating multi-spectral sensors as a multi-layer GIS.
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Optical Sensors and Instrumentation
NRE 542 |
Staff |
3 credits |
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A course designed primarily for natural scientists, covering the detection and measurement of radiant energy flow using image forming and non-image forming optical remote sensing systems; the role of componenets in optical remote sensing systems; photographic instrumentation and its use as a radiometric remote sensor; calibration of optical systems and techniques for eliminating or reducing unwanted signals; examples of experimental design in remote sensing of earth resources.
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Imaging Radar as a Remote Sensor
NRE 543 |
Professor Veseckey |
3 credits |
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Descriptive treatment of imaging radar systems, theoretical and operational performance and limitations. Reflections from terrestrial and vegetal surfaces, interpretation of imagery, and application to topics of student interest (e.g., geology, oceanography, forestry).
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Geo-Referenced Data Applications
NRE 544 |
Staff |
3 credits |
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Theoretical and practical considerations in digital analysis of geo-referenced data, including digital analysis of satellite data and blending several data sources in geographic information systems.
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