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Exam Instructions

Date, format, sections, topics, essay prompts. Replicated from the two review sheet photos.

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Remote Sensing of Vegetation

Phenology, vegetation reflectance, and indices (SR, NDVI, EVI). Formulas rendered as math; diagrams preserved as images.

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Sensors — SPOT & IKONOS

Scanning geometries, SPOT 1–7 history and specs, IKONOS orbit/bands/agility, high-resolution trade-offs.

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Electromagnetic Radiation

Wave & particle models, Stefan–Boltzmann, Wien's Law, atmospheric scattering & windows, reflection types.

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Airborne & Multispectral Imaging

Aerial-photo terminology (vantage / height / scale / view / coverage), pan vs multispectral, additive/subtractive color, true- and false-color composites.

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Landsat — MSS / TM / ETM+ / OLI

Orbits (altitude, period, cycle, inclination), Landsat 1–9 history, full band tables for each sensor, WRS path/row, Amazon case study, EarthExplorer.

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Sectional Charts & Weather (Part 107)

Airspace classes A–G, sectional line conventions, MSL vs AGL, METAR decoding, cloud-base from temp/dewpoint, drone weather minimums.

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IKONOS (student presentation)

Short 9-slide deep-dive on IKONOS — launch, orbit, bands, 6 product levels, WGS 84, applications.

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Drone / UAS Remote Sensing

UAV vs. UAS, payload types (RGB, multispectral, thermal, LiDAR), processing pipelines.

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Unsupervised Classification (ISODATA)

Classification schemes (Anderson LULC), ISODATA algorithm, the three parameters (N, T, M), convergence worked example.

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Supervised Classification

Training samples, signatures, decision rules: Parallelepiped, Minimum Distance, Maximum Likelihood / Bayesian, Mahalanobis. All formulas rendered.

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Geography & Scale (GPY 200 intro)

What geography is, the eight geographic questions, and how cartographic scale changes what you see (state vs. county example).

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