Theoretical part 

• Satellite imagery, its properties and applications; 
• The current state of the remote sensing data market; 
• Parameters of satellite orbits, types of survey instruments; 
• Basic principles of modern survey instrument imaging; 
• Geometric and radiometric properties of images and geo-referencing; 
• Preliminary and thematic processing of images and processing levels; 
• Methods for correcting geometric and radiometric distortion of images;
• Remote sensing data storage formats, features of common graphical, GIS and RSD formats; 
• Raster and vector data formats supported by the ScanMagic program; 
• Key program technological aspects: on-the-fly swapping, on-the-fly processing, on-the-fly re-projection; 
• Remote sensing data geographic and cartographic reference; 
• Remote sensing data archiving and cataloguing; 
• ScanMagic installation, configuration and interface; 
• Features overview.

Practical part: 

• Creating and unloading a raster data library; 
• Geometric correction: referencing using a rigorous sensor model; 
• Loading GTOPO-30 and SRTM-90 data; 
• Orthorectification;