From MAAP to ASCEND
ESA’s Biomass mission is a major step in monitoring global forests. It’s the first satellite to use P-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR) for detailed forest biomass measurement. But Biomass…
Resource Spectrum: Radar
Calibration and Validation (Cal/Val) Activities in Earth Observation Missions like ESA Biomass
Importance of Cal/Val Activities Listen to the Podcast Calibration and validation (Cal/Val) are critical components in the lifecycle of Earth observation satellites, ensuring that sensor…
The Future of Remote Sensing with Artificial Intelligence
Transforming Remote Sensing Through AI Artificial Intelligence (AI), particularly deep learning, is revolutionizing remote sensing by dramatically improving data processing capabilities. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs)…
Drones Equipped with SAR – Advantages, Challenges, and Applications
Listen to the Podcast Overview The integration of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) with drones marks a transformative advancement in Earth observation and remote sensing. Traditionally,…
The Future of the Japanese ALOS Program: Advancing Earth Observation for a Changing Planet
Introduction The Advanced Land Observing Satellite (ALOS) program, developed by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), is one of Japan’s most important contributions to global…
The Argentinian SAOCOM 1 Mission and the Upcoming SAOCOM 2 Program
Introduction The SAOCOM program (Satélite Argentino de Observación Con Microondas) is Argentina’s leading Earth observation initiative, managed by its national space agency, CONAE (Comisión Nacional…
Tandem-L: Germany’s Future L-Band SAR Mission for Dynamic Earth Observation
Introduction The Tandem-L mission is an ambitious Earth observation project led by the German Aerospace Center (DLR). It aims to revolutionize our ability to observe…
Large-scale EO data handling
In these tutorials, you learn how to handle large-scale datasets in the Julia language using the EarthDataLab.jl package and how to map deforestations with the…
ESA BIOMASS mission overview
The gross exchange of carbon between the land surface and the atmosphere is the largest flux within the global carbon cycle. Biomass at the Earth’s…
Biomass
Biomass is a crucial parameter in the estimation and quantification of the global carbon cycle. In this lesson the estimation of above ground biomass from…
The evolution of Sentinel-1
This presentation tells the story of the evolution of Radar technology from the early days of research on electromagnetic waves to the development of the…
Land Cover Classification
This is an introduction into the classification of land cover and land use from Earth observation data. The presentation includes: The material is valid for…
Introduction to Polarimetric SAR
This presentation is part of a four-part series on the basics on Synthetic Aperture Radar. Learning Objectives: Brief introduction to polarimetry and familiarize students with…
Introducción SAR polarimétrico
Esta presentación es parte de una serie de cuatro tomos sobre los conceptos básicos del Radar de Apertura Sintética. El objetivo es darles una introducción…
Introduction to SAR Interferometry
This presentation is part of a four-part series on the basics on Synthetic Aperture Radar. Learning Objectives: Brief introduction to polarimetry and familiarize students with…
Introducción a SAR interferométrico
Esta presentación es parte de una serie de cuatro tomos sobre los conceptos básicos del Radar de Apertura Sintética. Al finalizar esta presentación los participantes…
Basics of SAR
This presentation is part of a four-part series on the basics on Synthetic Aperture Radar. By the end of this presentation, you will be able…
Conceptos básicos de SAR
Esta presentación es parte de una serie de cuatro tomos sobre los conceptos básicos del Radar de Apertura Sintética. Al finalizar esta presentación los participantes…
SAR Processing and Data Analysis
This presentation is part of a four-part series on the basics on Synthetic Aperture Radar. Learning Objectives: Understand Sentinel Data Perform image preprocessing Analyze SAR…
Procesamiento y análisis de datos de SAR
Esta presentación es parte de una serie de cuatro tomos sobre los conceptos básicos del Radar de Apertura Sintética. Al finalizar esta presentación los participantes…
SAR Handbook
The SAR Handbook: Comprehensive Methodologies for Forest Monitoring and Biomass Estimation is the culmination of a two-year collaboration between NASA SERVIR and SilvaCarbon. Five trainings,…
SNAP – First Steps
What is SNAP? ESA’s Sentinel Application Platform (SNAP) is a set of toolboxes, developed for the processing and analysis of Earth observation data. This software…
SAR Tomography tutorial
This is an interactive Python tutorial including a Jupyter Notebook. In this tutorial you will learn how to process and analyse tomographic SAR data.
SAR Tomography
The module SAR Tomography introduces the advanced technique of combining multiple radar images from several viewing angles into a new dimension of information. Although tomogoraphic…