MinE 5590: Special Studies “Remote Sensing Applications for Mineral Resource

Modeling”

Postgraduate course
Taught By Dr. Khan Muhammad Assistant Professor Department of Mining Engineering, Faculty of civil
Agricultural and Mining Engineering UET Peshawar

Introduction:
Remote sensing technology is used in the geological sciences as a data acquisition method
complementary to field observation, for mapping of geological characteristics without physical
contact with the explored areas. This course will cover basic principles of satellite remote sensing, EM
radiations and their interaction with atmosphere. It will describe various optical and microwave satellite
systems and their onboard sensors. The characteristics and behavior of different earth features/objects
with respect to different EM radiations will be highlighted and their role in data interpretation would be
discussed. Application of different satellite images of varying spatial and spectral resolution would
discussed. The 2nd segment of the course will deal with Image processing. It will cover different image
processing functions and tools for extraction of desired information in a useable form. While providing a
conceptual understanding of all the image processing functions and tools to transform raw images to
value added products, an ample opportunity of hands on sessions on popular off –the- shelf software
packages will be provided to perform all these functions.

Course Learning Outcomes

1. Discuss various aspects remote sensing technology
2. Compare and contrast various remote sensing processing techniques for geological mapping
3. Apply remote sensing techniques using Google cloud computing

Text/Recommended Books
Remote Sensing Geology By Gupta (2003)

James B. Campbell PhD, Randolph H. Wynne - Introduction to Remote Sensing, Fifth Edition -The
Guilford Press (2011)

Assessment
Online Quizzes (15% Weightage)
Assignments (10% Weightage)
Mid Term (25% Weightage)
The paper will be mostly based on theoretical aspects of advance geostatistical techniques.
Case study: (20% Weightage)
A case study will be executed by each student using Google Earth Engine cloud computing and a formal
report will be presented explaining the data and the technique used for remote sensing of a spatial
entity.
Final Term Exam: (30% Weightage)

Questions related to theory discussed in the course and the case study will be asked and the students
will perform the task assigned in each question and submit it to the teacher. Nature of these questions
could be interactive where each task will be uploaded online as it is executed.

Detailed Lesson Plan:

Course Contents Week

Introduction: Elements of Remote Sensing, Energy 1st week

Sources or Illumination, Electromagnetic radiation its
characteristics and interaction with atmosphere

Platforms (Types and Orbital Characteristics), Sensor types 2nd week

and their characteristics Google Earth Cloud Environment

Data reception, pre-processing, Geometric and radio metric 3rd week

corrections

Components of Satellite image processing 4th week

Unsupervised Classification 5th week

Supervised Classification 6th week

Spectra of Minerals and Rocks 7th week

A Remote Sensing Program for Mineral Exploration 8th week

MID TERM

Google Earth Cloud computing for Remote Sensing 10th week

Physical and structural Geology: Applications of Remote 11th week

Sensing

Remote Sensing in Mineral Exploration 12th week

Remote Sensing for Mining 13th week

Case study executions on Google cloud computing-1 14th week

Case study executions on Google cloud computing-2 15th week

Case study executions on Google cloud computing-3 16th week

Case study executions on Google cloud computing-4 17th week

 FINAL TERM EXAM

Lecture Time:
Sunday 1100pm-2:00pm

Key Dates:
Start: 3-5-2020

Eid break: 24-5-2020

Mid Term: 5-7-2020

Eid Break: will announce a week before

Final Term: 13-9-2020

For any questions please feel free to post on the class room steam

Lecture Time:
Sunday 3:00pm-6:00pm

Key Dates:
Start: 3-5-2020

Eid break: 24-5-2020

Mid Term: 5-7-2020

Eid Break: will announce a week before

Final Term: 13-9-2020

For any questions please feel free to post on the class room steam
https://grindgis.com/what-is-remote-sensing/know-basics-of-remote-sensing