An Introduction to Ocean Remote Sensing - Practical lessons

Abstract

Earth observing satellites have become a key tool to study the oceans since they are the only observing platform able to synoptically observe the ocean at high spatial resolution. During the seminar we will review the fundamentals of ocean remote sensing (techniques, interpretation of the observations, data sources) and we’ll focus on their practical use. In particular, we’ll explore the use of SeaDAS, a free software create by the European Space Agency (ESA) and the North American Space Agency (NASA) for the analysis of infrared and ocean color measurements. We will complement this approach with the use of altimetric data