Satellite remote sensing
June 4-18, 2010
Overview
A two-week summer training course is offered to those who have either modest or no prior experience with satellite remote sensing techniques. The goal of the course is to teach participants the basic skills needed to work independently to acquire, analyze, and visualize data sets derived from a variety of satellite sensors (e.g., SeaWiFS, MODIS, AVHRR, SeaWinds and Topex/Jason). The course will focus a lot of attention on developing IDL (Research Systems Inc.) programming skills. A central feature of the IDL programming effort will involve working with SeaDAS commands from within IDL to batch process large quantities of SeaWiFS and MODIS data to obtain high resolution mapped images of chlorophyll and other ocean-color related products. Background lectures will cover the fundamentals of bio-optics, pigment algorithms, primary production algorithms and, to a lesser extent, the underlying physical principals leading to the measurement of sea surface temperature, ocean wind speed, and ocean topography.
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