5th ESA Advanced Training Course on Land Remote Sensing

ESA

University of Valencia

Mon, 8 Sep - Fri, 12 Sep 2014

The advanced course will provide a substantial and balanced introduction to the basic theory and applications related to land remote sensing. It will be organized around four main components: - Theoretical fundamentals of spaceborne Optical, Thermal and SAR remote sensing; - EO land applications lectures on Land Use and Land Cover, Terrain Motion, Hazards, Forest Bio-physical retrievals, Multi-temporal Analysis, Hot-Spot & Fire Detection, Hyperspectral and Lidar, Climate (Water and Carbon); - Practicals using ESA toolboxes for scientific exploitation of EO data; - EO data processing and product demonstration for land resources monitoring. The training course will include formal lectures by leading scientists as well as hands-on computing exercises exploiting real and simulated data for science and application.

University of Valencia
Valencia
English