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2020 InSAR Processing and Theory with GMTSAR


Course Information

  • Dates: June 29; July 1, 10, 17, 22-23, 27, 2020
  • Times: Varies per day, see Agenda below
  • Location: Online via Zoom
  • Registration: Registration is closed

More Information

Information on UNAVCO's response to COVID-19

This short course will be offered in a virtual format only.

This course will cover the theory and application of InSAR processing with GMTSAR. Lectures and exercises will be given to teach the basic theoretical aspects of InSAR. Labs will include software installation, running test data sets for standard interferogram formation as well as more advanced processing for time series with Sentinel-1A TOPS-mode data. Those unfamiliar with the software package GMT are encouraged to also attend the Generic Mapping Tools (GMT) for Geodesy short course.

This course does not have a registration fee.

Participants will apply to participate as we expect demand to exceed capacity. Decisions will be made on responses to prompts in the application. Priority will be given to applicants from UNAVCO member institutions and who need the training to conduct research in the next year. (Check to see if your institution is a member of the UNAVCO consortium.)

Agenda

  • June 29: Introductions I [1 hour, noon PDT]
  • July 1: Introductions II [1 hour, noon PDT]
  • July 10: HW 1-2 [2 hours, noon PDT]
  • July 17: HW 3-4 [2 hours, noon PDT]
  • July 22: [3 hours, 10 AM PDT]
    1. Theory of SAR
    2. Theory of InSAR
  • July 23: [3 hours, 10 AM PDT]
    1. How to access SAR data
    2. Two-pass interferometry
    3. InSAR time series
  • July 27: Student presenations [3 hours, noon PDT]

Computers and Data

Students will use their own UNIX capable laptop computer with at least 12 Gbytes of memory and 40 Gbytes of free disk space.
Computer code, documentation, and sample data sets can be downloaded from the following sites:

Instructors

  • David Sandwell, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
  • Scott Baker, UNAVCO
  • Anders Hogrelius, Earth Consultants International
  • Rob Mellors, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
  • Matt Wei, University of Rhode Island
  • Paul Wessel, University of Hawaii at Manoa
  • Leonardo Uieda, University of Liverpool, UK
  • Xiaohua Xu, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
  • Kang Wang - University of California, Berkeley
  • Katia Tymofyeyeva, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
  • Kathryn Materna, U.S. Geological Survey

Questions

Please contact David Sandwell, dsandwellucsd.edu.

 

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