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OTHER OCEAN-COLOUR COURSES / FELLOWSHIPS


Satellite Remote Sensing for Biological Oceanographers

Dr. Bruce Monger
Cornell University

May 28 - June 14, 2003

Application Deadline: May 1, 2003

This variable-credit course is a streamlined version of the highly successful Cornell summer course that was offered from 1999 to 2001. The course focuses exclusively on satellite data processing. It is geared toward oceanographers and prospective oceanographers that have little or no background in satellite remote sensing methods. The course goal is to enable participants to work independently to acquire data from a variety of satellite sensors (SeaWIFS/MODIS/AVHRR/SSM-I/SeaWinds and Topex-Poseidon) and intelligently merge data sets from different sensors to examine biological responses to changes in the physical environment.

The course is open to advanced undergraduate students, graduate students and post-graduate professionals. Participants have the option of earning either 3 or 5 semester credits of EAS 475 Special Topics in Oceanography. Participants who successfully complete 11 days (until June 7) of intensive lectures and hands-on computer exercises will earn 3 credits. Participants who spend an additional week (until June 14) working on a supervised research project will earn 5 credits. Participants seeking the 5-credit option are encouraged, but not required, to come with existing research topics to work on during the supervised research period. The minimum prerequisite for this course is one semester of oceanography and/or marine biology or instructor's permission. Good analytical and computer skills are desireable, but not essential.

Applications will be accepted until May 1, 2003.. To register for this course, or for further information, please see the Cornell Summer Sessions Program webpage http://www/sce.cornell.edu/ss/, or contact Dr. Bruce Monger at bcm3@cornell.edu


MODIS Ocean Products and Data Processing

Dr. Robert Evans, Dr. Viva Banzon, and Ms. Katherine Kilpatrick
University of Miami, Rosenstiel School for Marine and Atmospheric Sciences

July 7-11, 2003

Application Deadline: March 31, 2003

This intensive course will cover the nuances of ocean color and sea surface temperature collected by NASA's Moderate resolution scanning spectrometer (MODIS) aboard the TERRA and AQUA platforms. Lecture topics will include the history and development of ocean color and SST remote sensing algorithms. Particular emphasis will be on the current state of the art as applied to the MODIS sensor and its 36 ocean color and 4 SST products. Heritage products such as chlorophyll and 11-12µm SST will be discussed in relation to previous sensors (ie. CZCS/SeaWIFS/AVHRR), and new products will be explained. These include fluorescence line height, chlorophyll fluorescence efficiency, and calcite products. A daily, hands-on, lab will provide students with the tools and skills to order and manupulate MODIS HDF files with the goal to create the best images to fit students' research needs. Students will be expected to complete a small research project using MODIS data and are requested to state topics of interest at the time of application to enable the course and lab work to be tailored to their needs. Sutdents will be expected to have basic computer skills; some knowledge of IDL would be useful but is not required.

This course carries 2 graduate credits from the University of New England. Applications will be accepted until March 31, 2003. Participants will be chosen based upon application materials and the date the deposit is received.

Tuition scholarships are available for this course.

To register for this course, or for further information, please see: http://www.bigelow.org/cours e/index.html, or contact Ms. Jane Gardner at jgardner@bigelow.org


International Remote Sensing and Geographical Information System

Brasil Campus

March 5 - December 5, 2003

This training course is organized by:
 
 

  • REGIONAL CENTRE FOR SPACE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION FOR LATINA AMERICA AND THE CARIBE- CRECTEALC BRASIL CAMPUS 
  • MINISTRY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY- MCT, 
  • NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SPACE RESEARCH - INPE 
  • CEP/Traininig and Dissemiantion Activities in Space Science and Tehcnology
  • OBT/Remote Sensing Division
  • OBT/Image Processing Division 
  • CONSELHO NACIONAL DE DESENVOLVIMENTO CIENTÍFICO E TECNOLÓGICO - CNPq 
  • UNIVERSIDADE DAS NAÇÕES UNIDAS - UNU 
For further information please consult http://www.inpe.br/unidades/cep/atividadescep/cursointernacional/homepage.htm or contact Dra. Tania Maria Sausen, Coordenadora, CRECTEALC-Campus Brasil, INPE-CEP Av. dos Astronuats 1758, Cx.P. 515 CEP 12245-970 Sao Jose dos Campos, SP ,Brasil

 Tel: 55-12-3945-6862 Fax: 55-12- 3945-6870

 Email: tania@ltid.inpe.br 


General purpose IDL tools

ACRIST (Sophia-Antipolis - France) is offering a three-day training course on MERIS processing and general purpose IDL tools used to analyse and visualise MERIS data. The next two courses will be held on the following dates:

13-15 January, 2003 
10-12 March, 2003

Agenda of courses:

Day 1: The MERIS Instrument; The MERIS Mission; Overview of Products (Definition of L0, L1 (a,b), L2, L3, L4 data; L1b/L2 products); L1 architecture breakdown; L2 architecture breakdown; The Jargon 

Afternoon: Main Modules of the L2 processing chain:

  • Pre-Processing 
  • Pressure Estimates 
  • Classification / Pixel Identification (Rayleigh/Gaz Corr.) 
  • Water Confidence Checks (Whitecaps/Glint/Pressure) 
  • Water Vapour Computation 
  • Case 2 waters identifications 
  • Atmospheric Corrections over Case 2 waters 
Day 2: Atmospheric Corrections over Case 1 waters; Water Processing - Case 1 waters, NN approach for Case 2 waters; Cloud Processing; Land Processing (TOAVI, Atm. Corr., TOAVI)

Data Format :

  • MERIS products and their structure: MPH, SPH, DSD, DS, Flags, PCD scaling factors and offsets (measurement products only) 
  • Parameter key to address each parameter of MERIS 
  • L1 & L2 product files 
  • Look-Up-Table (LUT) 
Overview of Documentation: IODD, MDA2009, TDD, HTML pages, WEB, others?
Overview of Configuration: IDL version?, computer platform? 
Presentation/Tutorial of the IDL command line tools:
  • rd_prod: reading MERIS data products (meas. & aux.) 
  • rd_lprod: retrieving MERIS L1/L2 geophysical products 
Presentation/Tutorial of the IDL interactive tools: 
  • meris_browse: visualising a MERIS Browse product 
  • meris_child: creating a MERIS child product 
  • merisview: general L1b/L2 analysis/visualization tool 
Day 3: Exercising all the tools using practical cases.

For more information please see see the ACRI website: http://www.acri-ACRIt.fr/tools/, or contact Vincent Fournier-Sicre vfs@acri-st.fr


POGO-IOC-SCOR Visiting Fellowships, 2003

The Partnership for Observation of the Global Oceans (POGO) and its partners, the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) and the Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR), are now inviting applications for their Visiting Fellowship program.

The details regarding the fellowship and how to apply are available on the POGO website at: http://ocean-partners.org/ fellowship.html



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