Satellite Remote Sensing Training Course for Biological Oceanographers-Cornell University

A two-week summer training course is being offered to researchers who have either modest or no prior experience with satellite remote sensing techniques. The goal of the course is to teach participants the basic skills needed to work independently to acquire, analyze and visualize data sets derived from a variety of satellite sensors (e.g., SeaWiFS, MODIS, AVHRR, SeaWinds and Topex/Jason). The course will focus a lot of attention on developing IDL (Research Systems Inc.) programming skills. A central feature of the IDL programming effort will involve working with SeaDAS commands from within IDL to batch process large quantities of SeaWiFS and MODIS data to obtain high resolution mapped images of chlorophyll and other ocean-color related products. The course will run from June 2 though June 16 and is open to advanced undergraduate students, graduate students and post-graduate professionals.

For much more information about the course, visit www.geo.cornell.edu/ocean/satellite

The application deadline is May 1, 2006.

Bruce Monger

Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences

2136 Snee Hall, Cornell University

Ithaca, New York 14853

email: bcm3@cornell.edu

phone: 607.227.2972

fax: 607.254.4780

Source: ocean-color@seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov

Jorge Brenner