This advanced training course focused on ocean remote sensing theory and applications. It addressed both Radar and Optical/Thermal remote sensing and focused the following main topics:

• SAR principles, data products and applications including oil spill and ship detection, wave and wind field retrievals, shallow water bottom bathymetry, oceanic fronts and eddies detection, and sea ice monitoring
• MERIS ocean colour principles, atmospheric correction and water constituents retrieval algorithms, products and applications
• AATSR principles, atmospheric correction algorithms, comparison of microwave and infrared techniques for SST measurements, AATSR applications for oceanography
• RA principles, atmospheric and geophysical corrections, algorithm for sea level, wave height and wind observations, and applications relevant for large scale and coastal oceanography
• Synergy of data from different satellite sensors

Objectives

The specific objectives of the advanced ocean training course were to:

• Stimulate and support the exploitation of ESA Earth Observation remote sensing data for ocean applications
• Introduce available software tools and methods for the exploitation of these data
• Train the next generation of European and Canadian Principal Investigators (PIs)

Lecture presentations:

During the ocean training course the lecturers used their presentations to better demonstrate the applications.

Download the presentations (55 MB)

Download SAR Processing and analysis tools (60 MB)