A new special topics course will be offered for fall semester at UAF. The Geography 293 course, Survey of Elevation Modeling Techniques, is a three-credit class that will meet Thursdays from 6 to 9 p.m.
The class will introduce topographic mapping, contouring, hypsography, and digital elevation modeling, including a history of their development. It will survey relevant technology and techniques, including vertical mapping datums, land surveying, stereo imaging, photogrammetry, GPS, LiDAR (light detection and ranging), SAR (synthetic aperture radar), SAR Interferometry, and SONAR bathymetric mapping. It will include application studies such as glacier monitoring using LiDAR and SAR, and LiDAR biomass and forest canopy estimation, as well as flood plain mapping and tsunami inundation models for emergency managers.
Keith Cunningham, senior data quality engineer at the Alaska Satellite Facility, and specialist in LiDAR, remote sensing, and automated feature extraction, will be the instructor. Prior to joining ASF, Dr. Cunningham worked for twenty hears in the field of GIS for emergency telecommunications and emergency management.
If interested in the course, contact Cary deWit associate professor and chair of the UA Geography Program, 474-7141.
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