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Please note that this Unit Profile is still in progress. The content below is subject to change.Overview
Remote sensing is one of the most important and widely applied methods for monitoring natural and built environments. Satellite images help society understand the Earth's atmospheric, terrestrial, and aquatic environments. Information extracted from images is used to map and monitor land cover and biophysical changes (i.e. land-use change, vegetation health, crop yields, ozone concentration, soil moisture). Satellite images are often integrated into Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to support environmental management. In this unit, you will learn the spectral and spatial concepts that underpin multi-band image biophysical classification schemes. You will spend time practising image acquisition, processing and interpretation steps. Given the continued proliferation of satellite and airborne vehicle acquired images, such skills will increasingly be in demand.
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Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
Completion of 18 credit points
Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).
Offerings For Term 1 - 2026
Attendance Requirements
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes - in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 6-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.
Class Timetable
Assessment Overview
Assessment Grading
This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of 'pass' in order to pass the unit. If any 'pass/fail' tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully ('pass' grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the 'assessment task' section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%). Consult the University's Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades.
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- Grades and Results Policy
- Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework)
- Review of Grade Procedure
- Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure - Domestic Students
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- Student Refund and Credit Balance Policy and Procedure
- Student Feedback - Compliments and Complaints Policy and Procedure
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Feedback, Recommendations and Responses
Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.
Feedback from Self-reflection
A review of assessments is necessary
Assessments should be reviewed to improve their alignment with the unit learning outcomes.
Feedback from Student Feedback during tutorial, Self-reflection
Schedule a live weekly tutorial to complement pre-recorded lectures and other materials provided on Moodle.
The weekly one-hour live tutorial should be continued, as students who attend find the sessions highly beneficial
- Explain spatial, spectral, radiometric and temporal characteristics of remotely sensed data
- Evaluate the capabilities and limitations of optical, multispectral satellite remote sensing image processing
- Create maps of selected earth observation parameters using satellite image processing techniques.
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Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| 1 - Practical and Written Assessment - 20% | |||
| 2 - Practical and Written Assessment - 30% | |||
| 3 - Case Study - 50% | |||
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| 1 - Communication | |||
| 2 - Problem Solving | |||
| 3 - Critical Thinking | |||
| 4 - Information Literacy | |||
| 5 - Team Work | |||
| 6 - Information Technology Competence | |||
| 7 - Cross Cultural Competence | |||
| 8 - Ethical practice | |||
| 9 - Social Innovation | |||
| 10 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures | |||