Courses in Remote Sensing Study Track

The preliminary syllabus for the academic year 2022-2023 can be found here. The final syllabus will be published in Sisu. Please note, that some courses will not be lectured every academic year.

Compulsory courses (45-50 cr)

ATM301 Atmospheric and Earth Sciences Today (5 cr)
ATM345 Atmospheric science seminar for Master’s students (5 cr)
ATM350 Master's thesis (30 cr)
ATM399 Maturity test (0 cr)
Personal study plan (0 cr) (included in ATM301)

Select either ATM302 Climate.now (5 cr) or ATM386 Climate.now (2 cr).

Select either ATM303 Project course in atmospheric sciences (3 or 5 cr) or ATM384 Integrating art and science (5 cr) or ATM380 Solutions.now (5 cr).

Mathematical and computational methods in remote sensing course package (10-15 cr)

Compulsory courses:

• ATM357 Atmospheric Radiation (5 cr)
• ME-204 Geoinformatics I (5 cr)

Optional course: MAST32005 Spatial Modelling and Bayesien Inference (5 cr)

Optional courses / course packages (complete at least 40 cr)

You can complete whole course packages or singular courses.

Observation systems and methods course package

ATM322 Meteorological observation systems (5 cr)
ATM323 Advanced Course in Radar Meteorology (5 cr)
ATM324 Laboratory Course in Radar Meteorology (5 cr)

Remote sensing of the atmosphere and hydrosphere course package

ATM325 Satellite Remote Sensing Methods in Aerosols Science (5 cr)
ATM310 Time Series Analysis in Geosciences (5 cr)
PAP314 Introduction to Light Scattering (5 cr)

Remote sensing of the biosphere and land use course package

GEOG-G302 Remote sensing I (5 cr)
GEOG-322 Remote sensing II (5 cr)
GEOG-324 Imaging spectroscopy (5 cr)
ME-230 Geoinformatics 2 (5 cr)
ME-232 Remote sensing 1 (5 cr)
ME-234 Counting methods in forest sciences (5 cr)
FOR-258 GIS analysis and modelling (5 cr)
FOR-260 Advanced course in remote sensing (5 cr)

Optional advanced courses

ATM373 Leadership for Sustainable Change (5 cr)
ATM378 Sustainable.now (5 cr)
ATM379 SystemsChange.now (5 cr)
ATM380 Solutions.now (5 cr)
ATM377 Introduction to Earth System Modelling (5 cr)
ATM389 Living with changing climate (5 cr)

Data Science

ATM308 Statistical Analysis of Environmental Field Measurements (5 cr)
ATM309 Analysis of atmosphere-surface interactions and feedbacks (5 cr)
ATM310 Time Series Analysis in Geosciences (5 cr)
DATA11001 Introduction to Data Science (5 cr)
DATA12001 Advanced Course in Machine Learning (5 cr)
LSI35002 Bayesian Data Analysis (5 cr)
DATA20001 Deep learning (5 cr)

Select at most one of the following courses:

• DATA11002 Introduction to Machine Learning (5 cr)
• ATM4171 Introduction to Machine Learning for Atmospheric and Earth System Research (5 cr)

Compulsory courses (5-10 cr)

Select either ATM302 Climate change now (5 cr) or ATM386 Climate.now (2 cr).

Select either ATM378 Sustainable.now (5 cr) or ATM385 Introduction to sustainability (3 cr).

Optional courses (complete at least 5 cr)

ATM308 Statistical Analysis of Environmental Field Measurements (5 cr)
ATM373 Leadership for Sustainable Change (5 cr)
ATM379 SystemsChange.now (5 cr)
ATM380 Solutions.now (5 cr)
MAAT-051 Introduction to Circular Economy (3-5 cr)
ATM389 Living with changing climate (5 cr)
ATM383 Leadership for sustainable change (2 cr)
ATM382 ClimateComms.now (2 cr)
FYS4027 Ilmasto.nyt tutustumiskurssi (2 cr)
FAF-101A Biodiversity.now A (2 cr)
FAF-101B Biodiversity.now B (Project Work) (3 cr)

Other studies can include study modules or courses from other programmes or courses from other study tracks. Also practical training and language studies can be included in other studies.