Microwave Remote Sensing Training
Commitment | 3 days, 7-8 hours a day. |
Language | English |
User Ratings | Average User Rating 4.8 See what learners said |
Price | REQUEST |
Delivery Options | Instructor-Led Onsite, Online, and Classroom Live |
COURSE OVERVIEW
Microwave Remote Sensing Training will cover the fundamentals of passive and active microwave remote sensing and provide a summary of the information needed to understand space-based microwave remote sensing systems. The Microwave Remote Sensing Training course is designed for satellite design engineers and managers who wish to understand remote sensing of the land, sea, and atmosphere. The course will enhance the knowledge of both people working in the field and also provide a systems perspective for satellite engineers and instrument designers. Each topic will be illustrated using published data about current remote sensing instruments, focusing on practical working systems and issues. Passive remote sensing techniques will be emphasized. From this Microwave Remote Sensing course, you will obtain the knowledge and ability to perform basic systems engineering calculations, evaluate tradeoffs and evaluate advanced systems.
WHAT'S INCLUDED?
- 3 days of Microwave Remote Sensing Training with an expert instructor
- Microwave Remote Sensing Electronic Course Guide
- Certificate of Completion
- 100% Satisfaction Guarantee
RESOURCES
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
CUSTOMIZE IT
- We can adapt this Microwave Remote Sensing course to your group’s background and work requirements at little to no added cost.
- If you are familiar with some aspects of this Microwave Remote Sensing course, we can omit or shorten their discussion.
- We can adjust the emphasis placed on the various topics or build the Microwave Remote Sensing course around the mix of technologies of interest to you (including technologies other than those included in this outline).
- If your background is nontechnical, we can exclude the more technical topics, include the topics that may be of special interest to you (e.g., as a manager or policy-maker), and present the Microwave Remote Sensing course in a manner understandable to lay audiences.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
Upon completing this Microwave Remote Sensing course, learners will be able to meet these objectives:
AUDIENCE/TARGET GROUP
The target audience for this Microwave Remote Sensing course:
- All
CLASS PREREQUISITES
The knowledge and skills that a learner must have before attending this Microwave Remote Sensing course are:
- N/A
COURSE SYLLABUS
- Introduction to Microwave Remote Sensing — The electromagnetic spectrum. Frequency allocations. Brief history and the u.c. scale.
- Review of Basic Concepts — Wave propagation, polarization, reflection, refraction and penetration, microwave dielectric properties of materials (water, ice, snow, rocks, soils, and vegetation). Microwave Remote Sensing Training
- Antenna Fundamentals — Antenna properties, basic types, gain and sidelobes, electronic scanning.
- Introduction to Active Remote Sensing — History of radar remote sensing, basic radar operation, types of radars, the radar equation, and radar applications.
- Principles of Imaging Radar — Altimeters, real-aperture imagers, synthetic-aperture imagers Interferometry and Polarimetry. Basic principles of each application and satellite program.
- Introduction to Microwave Radiometry — Radiometric quantities. Thermal emission. Brightness temperature and apparent temperature. Emissivity.
- Radiometric Receivers — System operation, types of receivers, sensitivity, and calibration.
- Emission Models — Surfaces, atmospheric layers, and scattering albedo.
- Microwave Interaction with Atmospheric Constituents — Physical properties of the atmosphere. Absorption, emission, and scattering. Emission spectrum.
- Passive Microwave Sensing of the Atmosphere — Temperature profiling, water-vapor profiling, total water measurements, cloud water measurements, and limb-sounding.
- Oceanographic and Land Applications — Sea-surface temperature, sea-surface salinity, sea-surface wind speed and direction, soil-moisture mapping.