8th Advanced Training Course on Radar Polarimetry

The European Space Agency (ESA) is organising the 8^th ESA Advanced Course on Radar Polarimetry for training the next generation of Earth Observation (EO) scientists in dual and full polarimetric data for science and applications development

The course is part of ESA’s EO Science for Society – the Scientific Exploitation element of EOEP-5 (the fifth cycle of ESA’s Earth Observation Envelope Programme) for pioneering new EO services and scientific discoveries, stimulating downstream industry growth, and supporting international responses to global societal challenges.

Objectives

The main objectives of the course are to:

• Train the next generation of  scientists and users of SAR polarimetric data;
• Explain theoretical principles, processing algorithms, data products and their use in various applications;
• Provide first-hand and up-to-date information on state-of-the-art methods and applications in Radar Polarimetry, Polarimetric SAR Interferometry and SAR Tomography;
• Introduce available tools and methods for the exploitation of dual-pol and full-pol data;
• Provide in-depth overview of BIOMASS mission and hands-on training on the processing and exploitation of BIOMASS data