REGISTRATION OPENS IN APRIL

This course will cover the theory and application of repeat-pass synthetic aperture radar interferometry (InSAR) using the software GMTSAR. Lectures and exercises will be given to teach the basic theoretical aspects of InSAR. Labs will include software installation, running test data sets for standard interferogram formation, as well as more advanced processing for time series with Sentinel-1A TOPS-mode data. Those unfamiliar with the software package GMT are encouraged to also attend the Generic Mapping Tools (GMT) for Geodesy short course. Several of the instructors will be using Jupyter notebooks for the high-level interface.  We anticipate having example data from the NISAR satellite to be launched in March, 2025.

Time: Three, 2-hour classes virtual plenary sessions.  Four 1-hour optional virtual small group help sessions.
Primary Audience: Graduate and undergraduate students in Earth Science, early career geoscientists, university, government, or industry.  Students would attend the plenary sessions.  In addition, they would work with instructors in smaller groups to learn GMTSAR and prepare an oral presentation.
Secondary Audience: Same as above except students would only sign up to attend plenary sessions.  They may already be familiar with InSAR processing and want the latest theory from this group of instructors.

More information to be posted later.