Interdisciplinary

Remote Sensing is measurement from a distance, sensing from afar. It uses the whole electromagnetic spectrum and is applied on a huge variety of scales, from microscopic to satellite or astronomical levels. It is used where direct sensing is impossible or difficult. Most of the remote sensing faculty have active reasearch programs that require student workers and this experience is good professional training. The field is highly interdisciplinary and extremely broad and team based, including specialists in atmospheric physics and chemistry, biological and earth sciences, electrical engineering, forestry and ecology, civil and environmental engineering, oceanography, limnology, image and signal analysis, astronomy and computer sciences. The Remote Sensing Institue has faculty from 9 different departments and has a nuimber of advanced lab facilities as part of a NASA center of excellence.