Satellite remote sensing of the earth has become a vital field of study in the recent decades, starting from the low-to-medium resolution satellites of the 70s to the recent commercial very high resolution satellites which provide images with resolutions on the scale of 50 cm. In the absence of clouds, the atmosphere is generally transparent to frequencies in the visible frequencies, and for certain frequency ranges in the near-to-mid infrared (NIR / MIR) and thermal (TIR).

Speaker: Dr. Waqas A. Qazi

Dr. Waqas A. Qazi holds a PhD from University of Colorado, Boulder, USA, under a Fulbright fellowship, and is currently working as Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Space Science at Institute of Space Technology (IST), Islamabad, where he has been a founding member of the Geospatial Research and Education Lab (GREL) research group. At CU-Boulder, he studied at the Dept. of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, with a focus area in Remote Sensing, Earth and Space Science. His general expertise is in Remote Sensing where he has worked with various remote sensing datasets through his career, while he
has specific expertise in processing and analysis of SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) remote sensing data.