Course description: introduction to Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Remote Sensing: techniques and applications. The course will consist of theory and computer exercises and will be addressed to university students and young professionals with a background in
Remote Sensing.
Course duration: Over 1-week with lectures that are specific to subject areas on a daily basis
Cost: Free of charge – ESA-sponsored
Please complete and return to james.foden@gov.mt
1.0 Applicant details
Organisation Name
Contact point for the purpose of course communications
Ministry (if applicable)
Phone number and email
2.0 Areas of interest
In the following section, please select a number of application areas of interest to your organisation.
Please refer carefully to the example list at the end of this document, although you are welcome to add any other areas of interest. For each area of interest, please appoint nominees for course attendance and provide the further details as required.
Application area/s of interest
Names and email addresses of attendees
Level of experience and technical capability on
SAR:
None/Basic/Advanced
Will this person be acquiring and processing data OR will this person be a client/applications user?
Academic and technical: theory and computer exercises on
Synthetic Aperture
Radar (SAR) Remote
Sensing
Application area/s of interest
Names and email addresses of attendees
Level of experience and technical capability on
Earth Observation remote sensing:
None/Basic/Advanced
Please specify
Will this person be acquiring and processing data OR will this person be a client/applications user?
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Application area/s of interest
Names and email addresses of attendees
Will this person be acquiring and processing data OR will this person be a client/applications user?
Level of experience and technical capability on
Earth Observation remote sensing:
None/Basic/Advanced
Please specify
3.0 Additional Information
How many attendees would be interested in participating in a 1-day “Introduction to
SAR Basics”? (please list names)
Tentative preferred dates: week commencing 22 nd Sept, 29 th Sept, 6 th Oct,
13 th Oct, 20 th Oct 2014?
(if possible, candidates should give several options)
Example areas of interest
• Marine applications (including Wind Surface speed direction, Ocean Waves analysis, Ship detection, Oil Spills detection, Coastal monitoring)
• Topographic mapping
• Forestry (including Trees height estimation, Biomass estimation ...)
• Surface displacement measurements/mapping
• Crops monitoring
• Urban classification
• Lakes monitoring
• Archaeological sites monitoring
• Support to disaster
• Floods detection
• Techniques using SAR data: Integration into GIS, Galileo/GPS data, SAR polarimetry, tomography and interferometry
• Other (please specify)
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