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Remote Sensing
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This course will introduce you to Remote Sensing for the Geospatial Intelligence Professional - Students who successfully complete GEOG 883 will have a basic understanding of remote sensing systems, airborne and space borne sensors that collect optical imagery, elevation, and spectral data. They will understand the methods used to georeference and rectify these data in order to produce scaled maps and GIS-ready digital data products. The students will be introduced to the processing workflows used to convert raw data into orthophotos, digital terrain models, and image analysis products. These data products will be used in a variety of application scenarios, using commercially available software tools.

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Earth and Space Science
Geography
Geology
Social Studies
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Pennsylvania State University
Provider Set:
Penn State, College of EMS
Author:
Karen Schuckman
Date Added:
11/09/2017
Renewable Energy and Non-Market Enterprise
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The course approaches the exploration and explanation of key concepts in renewable energy and sustainability nonmarket strategies through evidence-based examples. Main topics for the course include: a) social structures of markets, b) nonmarket environments, c) renewable energy markets, d) complex systems analysis, and e) renewable energy technology and business environments.

Subject:
Physical Science
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
Pennsylvania State University
Provider Set:
Penn State, College of EMS
Author:
Erich Schienke
Date Added:
11/09/2017
Style for Students
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This style manual will quickly becomes a favorite resource. Whether planning a paper, running a grammar check, completing a report, composing an email, puzzling over a usage or grammar issue, or writing a resume or online portfolio, you are bound to find the material and examples you need in Style for Students Online. Drawing from his breadth of experience as a tutor, teacher, editor, and creative writer, Joe Schall provides technical writing advice that spans from the conceptual to the niggling. Thoughtful, practical, up-to-date, and rich in pith, Style for Students Online should be bookmarked as one of your oft-visited websites.

Subject:
English Language Arts
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Reading
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Provider:
Pennsylvania State University
Provider Set:
Penn State, College of EMS
Author:
Joe Schall
Date Added:
10/10/2017
Topographic Mapping with Lidar
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This course offers an introduction to the capabilities of lidar sensors and platforms, data processing systems, and derived digital data products. Students in this course will master basic skills needed to leverage commercial lidar data sources and information products in a broad range of applications, including topographic mapping, flood inundation studies, vegetation analysis, and 3D modeling of urban infrastructure.

Subject:
Earth and Space Science
Geography
Geology
Social Studies
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
Pennsylvania State University
Provider Set:
Penn State, College of EMS
Author:
Karen Schuckman, CP, PLS and Mike Renslow, CP, RPP
Date Added:
11/09/2017
A World of Weather: Fundamentals of Meteorology, Chapter 17
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This series of Web pages contains the material in Chapter 17: Numerical Weather Prediction, which is part of the fifth edition of the textbook / laboratory manual, A World of Weather: Fundamentals of Meteorology

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Earth and Space Science
Geography
Geology
Social Studies
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Activity/Lab
Full Course
Textbook
Provider:
Pennsylvania State University
Provider Set:
Penn State, College of EMS
Author:
Lee Grenci and Jon Nese
Date Added:
11/09/2017
Writing Personal Statements
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For students, personal statements and application essays are among the most difficult and most important documents they will ever write. They are difficult because they require both introspection and polish, and important because the writer may literally be competing for tens of thousands of dollars in a huge field of outstanding candidates. A writing tutor who has provided guidance on more than a thousand graduate applications, Joe Schall advises you on how to be competitive but not cocky, informed but not formulaic, openly creative yet professional. As you consider ways to write your way into your future, count on this website to help you grow and thrive in the process.

Subject:
English Language Arts
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Reading
Textbook
Provider:
Pennsylvania State University
Provider Set:
Penn State, College of EMS
Author:
Joe Schall
Date Added:
10/10/2017
Writing Recommendation Letters Online
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Building on the foundation laid by the popular earlier print editions of his faculty handbook on writing recommendation letters, Joe Schall digs deeper in this new online edition, addressing issues including the ethical considerations faculty wrestle with when writing letters and the new challenges posed by the information age. Citing sources ranging from The Chronicle of Higher Education to refereed journal articles to excerpts from listserv discussions among scholarship directors, this handbook advises faculty on the best practices when writing letters for students, as well as informs writers about nine of the nation's top scholarships and the detail that selectors crave in winning scholarship reference letters.

Subject:
Education
Higher Education
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
Pennsylvania State University
Provider Set:
Penn State, College of EMS
Author:
Joe Schall
Date Added:
10/13/2017