EE G6903: Class Schedule
DateClassLectureTitle
03 FEB 16:CLASS #1 - CLASS ORGANIZATION
READING ASSIGNMENT = Stephens Chapter 2 & S.Chandrasehkar Excerpt.
10 FEB 16:NO CLASS--
17 FEB 16:CLASS #2LECTURE #1
Review of Radiation Physics, Maxwell’s Equations, 1D to 3D Radiation.
24 FEB 16:CLASS #3LECTURE #2Radiative Transfer Equation and Solutions, Radiative Transfer Models
ASSIGNMENT =Stephens Chapters 1.2 & 3.1-3.4 & 6.2 & 7.2-7.3.
02 MAR 16:CLASS #4LECTURE #3Radiation Types from Earth, Remote Sensing Instrument Characteristics, Satellite Orbits and Sampling Characteristics
09 MAR 16:CLASS #5LECTURE #4Remote Sensing, Information Theory, Inverse Problem, Practical Retrieval Approaches (Scene ID)
ASSIGNMENT = Stephens Chapters 3.6 & 4.4-4.5 & 7.5.
16 MAR 16:CLASS #6LECTURE #5Emitted Radiation – Infrared & Microwave Imagers, Sounders and Spectrometers
READING ASSIGNMENT =Chapter 14 in Mishchenko, Stephens Chapter 8.
23 MAR 16:NO CLASS--
30 MAR 16:CLASS #7LECTURE #6Scattered Radiation by Molecules, Aerosols, Cloud Particles, Precipitation Particles, Particle Size Effects on Absorption and Scattering, Polarimeters
ASSIGNMENT =Stephens Chapter 5.
06 APR 16:CLASS #8LECTURE #7Active Sensors: Lidars and Radars
ASSIGNMENT=Stephens Chapters 7 and Rossow et al 1985, 1993
13 APR 16:CLASS #9SELECT STUDENT PRESENTATION TOPICS
LECTURE #8		Scene Identification: The Really Tricky Part
Aires, F., C. Prigent, W.B. Rossow and M. Rothstein, 2001: A new neural network approach including first-guess for retrieval of atmospheric water vapor, cloud liquid water path, surface temperature and emissivities over land from satellite microwave observations. J. Geophys. Res., 106, 14,887-14,907
20 APR 16:CLASS #10LECTURE #9Combined Analysis Approaches: Why Do It This Way? (Neural Networks)
27 APR 16:NO CLASS--
04 MAY 16:CLASS #11-STUDENT PRESENTATIONS
11 MAY 16:CLASS #12-STUDENT PRESENTATIONS
18 MAY 16:CLASS #13LECTURE #10Evaluating The Results: Statistical & Physical Approaches