TAT 2021 Training Material & Relevant Resources

Τraining Material

Training material of TAT 2021 shall be progressively added in this section, while the full final material will be available soon after the end of the training.

DAY 1 (June 1)

• Antonios Mouratidis (AUTH): TAT2021 Introduction
• Francesco Sarti (ESA): ESA EO Programmes & Data Access
• Garik Gutman (NASA): NASA Introduction
• Vincent Ambrosia (NASA): Fire Lecture
• Krishna Vadrevu (NASA): Fire & Emissions Quantification – Data, Methods & Tools

DAY 2 (June 2)

• Peter Potapov (GLAD): Land classification and change
• Petya Campbell (NASA): Vegetation health monitoring (theory + practicals)
• Anders Pedersen & Gregory Taff (WRI): Social Science in forest applications

DAY 3 (June 3)

• Astrid-Christina Koch (European Commission): Overview and status of Copernicus Programme
• Georgia Karadimou (RUS): Presentation of RUS Copernicus Cloud-based Service
• Antonios Mouratidis (AUTH) & Daniel Paluba (CUNI): SAR Introduction & Google Earth Engine (GEE) Demo
• Amalia Castro Gómez (ESA): Covid Race Dashboard
• Michael Foumelis (AUTH): SAR Applications & Geohazards Exploitation Platform (GEP) Demo

DAY 4 (June 4)

• Cloud-based RUS Practicals: Urban area monitoring with Sentinel-1

• Cloud-based RUS Practicals: Flood monitoring with Sentinel-1

Pdf tutorial guide: https://rus-copernicus.eu/portal/wp-content/uploads/library/education/training/LAND07_DeforestationMonitoring_Paraguay.pdf

Publications

• Recent Land Cover study using Google Earth Engine:  Paluba, D.; Laštovička, J.; Mouratidis, A.; Štych, P. Land Cover-Specific Local Incidence Angle Correction: A Method for Time-Series Analysis of Forest Ecosystems. Remote Sens. 2021, 13, 1743. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13091743
• ESA Geohazards Exploitation Platform: M. Foumelis, T. Papadopoulou, P. Bally, F. Pacini, F. Provost and J. Patruno, “Monitoring Geohazards Using On-Demand And Systematic Services On Esa’s Geohazards Exploitation Platform,” IGARSS 2019 – 2019 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2019, pp. 5457-5460, doi: 10.1109/IGARSS.2019.8898304.

Additional Resources

1. NASA Applied Remote Sensing Training Programme (ARSET) – Fire Webinar series (and many others):  https://appliedsciences.nasa.gov/what-we-do/capacity-building/arset
2. ESA Radar Courses:
   https://earth.esa.int/web/guest/missions/esa-operational-eo-missions/ers/instruments/sar/applications/radar-courses
3. InSAR Principles – Guidelines for Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Interferometry Processing and Interpretation:  https://eo4society.esa.int/resources/insar-principles/
4. Landsat Analysis Ready Data (ARD) developed by the Global Land Analysis and Discovery team (GLAD): https://glad.umd.edu/ard/home
5. “RUS Copernicus Training website: upcoming and past training events, E-learning courses” https://rus-training.eu/ (Webinars and Face to Face events on various topics, Q&A documents, videos)
6. “RUS Copernicus Training youtube channel” https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCB01WjameYMvL7-XfI8vRIA/videos (Recordings of RUS webinars: Land, Ocean, Hazards, Geology, Atmosphere etc.)
7. ENVI_Basic_PocketGuide_Vol1_Web
8. ENVI_Intermediate_PocketGuide_Web
9. SARscape_ENVI_Server@EUSAR_SAR_tutorial_L3H_20210329nh
   
10. ENVI and SARscape Analytics self-paced training program: https://www.l3harrisgeospatial.com/Learn/Training/Self-Paced-Training