Category: Learning paths

  • ISO GeoSpatial topics

    Name (link to RUC- data catalogue) Definition farming rearing of animals and/or cultivation of plants Examples: agriculture, irrigation, aquaculture, plantations, herding, pests and diseases affecting crops and livestock biota flora and/or fauna in natural environment Examples: wildlife, vegetation, biological sciences, ecology, wilderness, sealife, wetlands, habitat boundaries legal land descriptions Examples: political and administrative boundaries climatologyMeteorology…

  • Introduction to remote sensing

    Remote sensing is by USGS defined as “Remote sensing is the process of detecting and monitoring the physical characteristics of an area by measuring its reflected and emitted radiation at a distance from the targeted area”. In addition to this definition there are two key concepts we need to mention at this point namely: The sensors  or…