GEOG 182AIntroduction to Remote Sensing
Geography · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Introduction to fast-growing field of environmental monitoring from space. Application of Landsat, radar, Global Positioning System (GPS), and Earth Observing System satellites to land-use change, oceanography, meteorology, and environmental monitoring. Introduction to digital image-processing and imaging geographic information systems (GIS) software.
P/NP or letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2025
- Winter 2026
- Summer 2026
- Fall 2026
- Winter 2027
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Enforced requisite: course 7.
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GEOG 182A
- GEOG 7Introduction to Geographic Information Systems
1 direct requisite. The whole upstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.
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