Section outline

  • The lecture provides introductory concepts on detecting changes using EO data. Considerations about quantitative and qualitative assessment as well as methods and processing steps are also provided. 

    Learning outcomes :

    - Explain resolution characteristics of remote sensing data in general and of Copernicus Sentinel 1 and 2 in particular.

    - Explain operating principle of passive and active satellites.

    - Example on how to detect changes by using a quantitative analysis on land use and land cover.

    - Identify changes during 10 years period by usind Sentinel 1 data.

    - Indicate and calculate vegetation indices derived from satellite data for change detection in image time series.