Monitoring The Oceans From Space
Week 5: Oceans and Us
This final week of the course focuses on policy, socio-economics, citizen science, renewable energy potential within the oceans and the future of Earth observation.
Information provided by satellite sensors can support investigation of socio-economic issues surrounding the use of marine resources.
The information, which satellite sensors can provide, hugely supports the investigations of socio-economic issues surrounding the use of marine resources.
Public observation projects and crowdsourcing are a great way of collecting in-situ measurements to help reveal parameters important for understanding the underwater world.
Satellite data provides valuable information for developing technical specifications and environmental impact assessments for new infrastructure projects
Taking a look at the future of Earth Observation - new satellites and synergy between sensors.
In this first of two extra videos for this final week of the course, Dr Josh Willis from NASA JPL provides his thoughts and insights on the role of satellite data in assessing the ‘footprint’ of human activity on changes in the oceans
In this second of two extra videos for this final week of the course, we hear from some of the people responsible for operating and managing satellites and data from the EUMETSAT satellite control rooms.
The interactive exercise for week 5
Hayley Evers-King explains how to access ocean colour data from the Sentinel-3 satellite and work with it in the Sentinel-3 toolbox.
Anne O’Carroll remote sensing scientist at EUMETSAT explains how to access Copernicus Sentinel-3 sea surface temperature data and work with it in the Sentinel-3 toolbox
Bruno Lucas, Altimeter Data Processing Expert at EUMETSAT explains how to access Copernicus Sentinel-3 Altimetry data and how to visualize and work with it in BRAT.
Daniel Lee, Software & Data Format Engineer at EUMETSAT guides you through a variety of free and open software, for you to visualize NetCDF format files.
Course round-up
