Remote Sensing & Geographic Information Systems Instructional Laboratory Development

该项目的目标是通过遥感(RS)和地理信息系统(GIS)技术介绍环境分析、监测和管理的概念。该项目还纳入了数字图像的测绘概念，作为遥感和地理信息系统的空间基础。在该项目下开发的应用程序和学生项目侧重于新泽西州纽瓦克等城市地区的特殊环境。学生项目的一个例子是识别和绘制大都市区内潜在的危险废物地点。为实现这些目标，需要新的遥感软件和设备，这些软件和设备正在安装在新设立的个人计算机实验室中，并正在扩大其能力。该项目的成果将直接影响到土木与环境工程、环境科学、测量工程技术等部门。该实验室还将为邻近的罗格斯-纽瓦克大学和埃塞克斯县学院的学生提供服务。这些高等教育机构有交叉注册政策，以最大限度地减少课程重复和共享资源。所有这些机构的相当数量的学生都是市中心的第一代学生。

The objective of this project is to introduce the concepts of environmental analysis, monitoring, and management through remote sensing (RS) and geographic information system (GIS) techniques. The project is also incorporating mapping concepts from digital images which serve as the spatial foundation for RS and GIS. Applications and student projects that are developing under this project stress special settings in an urban area such as Newark, New Jersey. An example of a student project is to identify and map potential hazardous waste sites within the metropolitan area. For these objectives, there is a need for new RS software and equipment that is being installed in, and is expanding, the capabilities of the newly established PC-Laboratory. The results of this project will directly affect the Civil and Environmental Engineering, Environmental Science, and Surveying Engineering Technology Departments. The laboratory will also serve students from neighboring Rutgers-Newark University and Essex County College. These higher education institutions have a cross-registration policy to minimize duplication of courses and to share resources. A substantial number of students at all of these institutions are inner city, first generation students.