History and development of remote sensing, electromagnetic radiation and its interaction with matter, atmospheric effects and corrections, characteristics of remote sensors and platforms: optical, infrared and microwave sensor systems, recent trends in active remote sensing techniques: lasers and radars, Concept of resolutions in remote sensing, preliminaries for mathematical representation of digital image, geo-referencing, image enhancement, filters and transforms, indices and color models, feature evaluation, image classification, accuracy assessment, change detection.

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