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EO Summer School 7
04-Aug - 14-Aug 2014
Frascati, Italy
The European Space Agency (ESA) organises a series of summer schools on Monitoring of the Earth System, which promote the exploitation of Earth observation (EO) data across disciplines, with a specific focus on their assimilation into Earth System models.
The two-week course, held in ESA-ESRIN (near Rome, Italy) during August (typically every two years), aims to provide students with an integrated end-to-end perspective going from measurement techniques to end-user applications. Courses include lectures covering issues related to Remote Sensing, Earth System Modelling and Data Assimilation as well as hands-on computing exercises on the processing of EO data. Keynote lectures on global change issues are also given to discuss the current state of the science of global change and its relationship to society in order to help students appreciate how their specific field fits into a broader scientific and political context. For more information, please see the programme.
The event is open to Early Career Scientists (i.e. Ph.D. students, young post-doctoral scientists) who are specialised in a variety of Earth Science disciplines and wish to expand and improve their knowledge and skills.
The seventh EO Summer School took place between 4 – 14 August 2014.
Programme
Shubha Sathyendranath (Plymouth Marine Laboratory)
- Ocean colour: an introduction
- Ocean colour as an essential climate variable
- Remote sensing of marine primary production
Michael Buchwitz (University of Bremen)
- Greenhouse gas observations from space: Why and how?
- Greenhouse gas observations from space: Results from ESA's GHG-CCI project
- Greenhouse gas observations from space: Proposed future mission CarbonSat
Pierre Briole (CNRS)
- Remote sensing of volcanoes
- Basics of the modelling of the ground deformations produced by an earthquake
- Precise kinematic GPS: method and applications
Annett Bartsch (Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich)
- Active microwave remote sensing of land surface hydrology and Time series analyses in active microwave remote sensing
- Remote sensing applications for permafrost studies
Ana Iglesias (Polytechnic University of Madrid)
- Looking into the future of food production in a changing climate
- Drought Early Warning Systems in Africa
- Adaptation of water resources to climate change: Learning studies
Ronald Kwok (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
Alan O'Neill (University of Reading)
- Data Assimilation for Earth System Science: introductory ideas and basic principles
- Practical algorithms in data assimilation
- Data assimilation in practice: synthesising EO data for science and operational needs
Sean Healy (ECMWF)
- Satellite Data for Numerical Weather Prediction 1
- Satellite Data for Numerical Weather Prediction 2
- Using an Ensemble Data Assimilations technique to estimate the impact of new observations
David Lary (University of Texas at Dallas)
- Aerial Vehicles, Machine Learning and Remote Sensing
- Machine Learning for Scientific Applications
- Machine Learning for Societal Applications
Claude Duguay (University of Waterloo)
- Lake ice cover and surface water temperature I: Role and response in lake-climate interactions
- Lake ice cover and surface water temperature II: Satellite remote sensing
- Lake ice cover and surface water temperature III: Numerical modelling
John Remedios (University of Leicester)
- Observing climate I: surface temperatures
- Observing climate II: atmosphere gas profiles
- Observing climate III: integrated systems
Iarla Kilbane-Dawe (AEA)
Computing Practicals
Data Assimilation Practicals
- Effect of statistical analysis parameters - Melanie Ades
- 4D-Var and incremental 4D-Var - Phil Browne
- Ensemble and extended Kalman filters - Polly Smith
- Student Projects - Javier Amezcua
Remote Sensing and Earth Observation Practicals
ESA Toolbox - Chris Stewart- Burnt area mapping
- Download EO Summer School 7 Fire detection practicals:
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