Department of Food Production

LEVEL: III 

SEMESTER: 1 

COURSE TITLE: GEOPHYSICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL SENSING

NUMBER OF CREDITS: 3

PRE-REQUISITES: AGSL 1001 or GEOG 1231 and GEOG 1232

COURSE DESCRIPTION: General Introduction; introduction to moisture measurement and sensing; soil texture and structure; theory of the electrical properties of soils (part I); electrical properties of soils (part II), applications; introduction to descriptive statistics, distributions; introduction to the Stanford geostatistical and environmental modelling software; correlation analysis; semivariogram analysis; interpolation and Kriging; Kriging methods, uncertainty and simulation; auto correlation analysis.

ASSESSMENT: Coursework 40% Final Examination 60%