Digital Image Processing for Remote Sensing

Course information

This class is a general introduction to Digital Image Processing, with special focus on remote sensing applications using Google Earth Engine (GEE). It was taught at UNAM (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) in 2024, as part of the Licenciatura en Geografía Aplicada in the Escuela Nacional de Ciencias de la Tierra (ENCIT).

Note: students enrolled in this course had no prior programming knowledge.

Instructor

Sébastien Valade (UNAM)

Part 1: fundamentals of Digital Image Processing

Introduction

• Introduction (slides)

Lecture 01

• Lecture: Python/Jupyter setup (slides)
• Tutorial: Python (notebook)
• Tutorial: Jupyter (notebook)

Lecture 02

• Lecture: Digital Image Basics (slides) (slides extra)
• Tutorial: Numpy (notebook)
• Exercises: notebook, images
• Exercises (solved): notebook

Lecture 03

• Lecture: Image Filtering (slides)
• Exercises: notebook, images
• Exercises (solved): notebook

Lecture 04

• Lecture: Morphology and Segmention (slides)
• Exercises: notebook, images
• Exercises (solved): notebook

Part 2: remote sensing applications with Google Earth Engine (GEE)

Lecture 05

• Lecture: GEE Introduction (slides)
• Exercises: notebook

Lecture 06

• Lecture: GEE Image Manipulation (slides)
• Exercises: notebook

Lecture 07

• Lecture: GEE Image Classification (slides)
• Exercises: notebook

Lecture 08

• Lecture: GEE Change Detection (naive images differencing) (slides)
• Exercises: notebook

Lecture 09

• Lecture: GEE Timeseries (slides)
• Exercises: notebook

Lecture 10

• Lecture: GEE Mosaicking and Compositing (slides)

Extra

• PlanetScope in GEE (slides by Dulce Ruiz)
• GOES16 in GEE (notebook1, notebook2 by Santiago Piñón Juárez)

Recommended Literature

• Chuvieco, E. (2010). Teledetección ambiental
• Gonzalez R.C. & Woods, R.E. (2018). Digital Image Processing (4th Ed.)
• Lillesand, T., Kiefer, R. W., & Chipman, J. (2014). Remote sensing and image interpretation.
• Cardille J. A., et al. (2024). Cloud-Based Remote Sensing with Google Earth Engine
• Canty M. J. (2019). Image Analysis, Classification and Change Detection in Remote Sensing. CRC Press. 4th Edition