Surface Currents

This lesson presents approaches and techniques to measure surface ocean currents with SAR data. The methods are separated into direct and indirect measurement techniques.

Oil Detection

The detection of oil contaminated areas at sea is one of the major applications of SAR data in oceanography. This lesson provides knowledge regarding detection…

Passive Microwaves

Aside from active radar remote sensing techniques such as SAR, it is also possible to measure the natural microwave emission of the Earth. This lesson…

Anthroposphere

Anthropogenic activities have manifold influences on the shape and dynamic of the Earth’s surface. In this lesson you learn methods and concepts used to monitor…

Probability Theory

The module “Probability Theory” provides the mathematical basics for understanding the methods of estimation theory. After defining the term “probability”, the Bayes’ Theorem is introduced…

Soil Moisture Retrieval

This tutorial will give insight into soil moisture retrieval from ASCAT scatterometer data, based on multi-temporal scatterometer data and change detection. Learn how to download…

Urban Footprint mapping utilizing S1 data

This tutorial will show you the basics of SAR data processing within the program environment of “SNAP”. These basics of SAR data processing include: generation…