Land cover changes can impact many areas of life. These changes can affect deforestation, ecological communities, wildfire extent, and urban growth. This advanced series focused on using satellite imagery to map changes in land cover. Users will learn change detection methods, including image subtraction and classification. They will also conduct their own change detection analysis. This training will use QGIS, the R statistical program, and the Random Forest algorithm.
This is a free available online course from the program Applied Remote Sensing Training (ARSET) from NASA that includes videos and presentations making this course very interactive.
The learning objectives are: