Remote Sensing - Spectral Remote Sensing

Remote Sensing to Study Wildfire

Scientists often use remote sensing methods to study the impacts of wildfire through calculations of vegetation indices before and after wildfire. Learn more about how remote sensing can be used to study wildfire impacts.

last updated: 11 Sep 2020

An Overview of the 2013 Colorado Floods

The 2013 flood event caused significant damage throughout the state of Colorado, USA. Learn about what caused the 2013 floods in Colorado and also some of the impacts.

last updated: 11 Sep 2020

How to Open and Work with NAIP Multispectral Imagery in R

In this lesson you learn how to open up a multi-band raster layer or image stored in .tiff format in R. You are introduced to the stack() function in R which can be used to import more than one band into a stack object in R. You also review using plotRGB to plot a multi-band image using RGB, color-infrared to other band combinations.

last updated: 03 Sep 2019