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Under the motto "Exploring SAR data" , the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, in cooperation with the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and numerous partners from the German research landscape, is presenting the VII SAR-EDU Summer School for Applied Radar Remote Sensing.
The offered program is intended to provide an insight into the fundamentals and applications of radar remote sensing in the Earth Sciences and is aimed equally at academic, commercial and regulatory users.
The topics of the Summer School include Basics, Signal Processing, Interferometry, Polarimetry, Polarimetry Exercise, Time Series, Oceanography, Hydrosphere, Anthroposphere and Biosphere.
Academic, commercial and regulatory users of Radar Remote Sensing in the Earth Sciences.