Remote Sensing & Geoscience Information Systems

This course is designed to teach students about the planet Earth, the roles played by external agents such as water, wind and ice on the physical features of the Earth. The processes leading to the formation of the different rock types, the forces and processes involved in rock deformation, their resultant effects and the distribution of energy resources.

This course is designed for a semester in Fortran Programming language for undergraduate Computer Science, Mathematical Science and Engineering students. The course covers general concepts and introduction to Fortran Programming with Fortran 03 (or Fortran 2003). Fortran 03 contains all of the features of the later version Fortran 77/95 needed to write complete and workable Fortran programs. Even though the course may not, in to full details, give everything the students need, it covers the basic features needed to be a good Fortran programmer and an introduction to the important new features of Fortran 03. This course has found profound and significant applications in Engineering, Mathematics, Computer Science, and other related fields.

Importance and scope of agriculture. Land and its uses with particular reference to agriculture. Introductory crop production. Agricultural ecology of Nigeria. Agronomy of some arable crops. Land preparation. Harvesting, processing and reservation method. Farm tools and machinery including tractor driving and by-products. Basic farm management techniques. Fisheries and wildlife production. Forest products. General introduction to livestock production and health.

This is a compulsory course that is designed to meet the need of students in other fields such as Physics (SOS), AGP (SEMS), AGY (SEMS) and RSG (SEMS). Topics to be covered include: The foundation of classical thermodynamics including Zeroth laws and definition of temperature; first law of thermodynamics, work, heat and internal energy. Carnot cycles and second law of thermodynamics; Entropy and irreversibility, thermodynamic potentials and Maxwell relations, Applications of thermodynamics laws (1st and 2nd); Qualitative discussion of phase transitions; third law of thermodynamics, ideal and real gases, Elementary kinetic theory of gases including Boltzmann constant, Maxwell-Boltzmann law of distribution of velocities. Simple applications of the distribution law and 3rd law of thermodynamics.

This course is an introductory lecture in Remote Sensing, the first departmental course for all remote sensing and GIS Students. It forms the foundation on which the remote sensing expertise is built and as such, will expose the students to the principles on remote sensing. It is basically theory with little fundamental exercises. The course contents include: Overview of remote sensing technology; history and evolution of remote sensing. Electromagnetic radiation and its interaction with matter; Laws of radiation (Stefan’s Law, Kirchhoff’s Law, Wien’s Law, Planck’s Law); electromagnetic spectrum and its characteristics, source of electromagnetic radiation; propagation of electromagnetic energy: dispersion, scattering, absorption, refraction and reflection.

This will involve field planting. Each student will be allocated a field plot for the planting and management of an arable crop. Students will be exposed to practical work in animal production and health, fisheries and wildlife management, and crop and forestry nurseries.

This course is an introductory lecture to basic atmospheric physics and processes of Airborne Remote Sensing. The course contents include: Physical processes in the interaction of radiation and matter: Properties of the atmosphere, constituents, contaminants, lapse rate, clouds, atmospheric sounding, Scattering mechanisms, temporal variations; albedo, reflection, Snell’s law, absorption, photoelectric effect, insulation. General overview of airborne remote sensing: Photography: - imaging – instrumentation and procedures; advantages and applications