Application now open also for non-members: Training course on marine remote sensing in Svalbard

This autumn, SIOS will offer a training course on how to effectively use satellite data, tools and software in the context of marine research in Svalbard. The course is intended for researchers, PhD students and technicians with no or little experience with satellite remote sensing techniques. The training will be delivered by marine remote sensing experts from SIOS member institutions and ESA.

Time: 2-5 September 2019 (starting Monday morning, ending Thursday at lunch time)
Location: Longyearbyen, Svalbard
Who can apply? In this second round also non-SIOS members can apply
UPDATE: Application is closed. All places are filled!

This training course is free of charge. Course participants need to arrange their own travel and accommodation expenses.

Course participants are expected to bring their own laptops. The course is based on free and open access software and SIOS will additionally provide access to a virtual machine.

Goal of the training

The goal of the course is to teach participants the basic skills needed to work independently to acquire, analyse and visualise marine data sets derived from a variety of satellite sensors.

Objectives

Many field scientists, field oceanographers, biological oceanographers and marine biologists from SIOS member and observer institutions have been working on research projects which would greatly benefit from the addition of a satellite remote sensing viewpoint. However, they may lack the necessary training required to make easy but effective use of freely available data sets, tools, and software. Ph.D. students from SIOS member or observer institutions who are about to begin careers using satellite remote sensing as an integral part of their research projects can also benefit from this training course.

Topics covered during the training

The training course will include lectures and hands-on sessions focusing on:

  • overview of marine satellite remote sensing applications using Copernicus satellites,
  • online free and open data for marine scientists,
  • portals for data visualisation and various data inventories for field scientists,
  • retrieval of high-resolution ice drift and deformation from SAR,
  • remote sensing of phytoplankton blooms using case studies, in situ and satellite-based primary productivity and bio-optical studies in fjords,
  • estimation of chlorophyll and generation of chlorophyll maps of fjords of Svalbard.

Target audience

Anyone from field scientists, marine scientists, biological oceanographers and marine biologists with little or no background in remote sensing.

For more information, please contact Shridhar Jawak (remotesensing@sios-svalbard.org)

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Algae blooms in the fjord waters of Nordfjorden (Isfjorden). Image taken with Sentinel on 14 June 2018.