11th Advanced Training Course on Land Remote Sensing

Course materials from the 11th Advanced Training Course on Land Remote Sensing with the focus on Agriculture and Water

Day 1 – Monday 21 November 2022

• Course introduction
• Earth Observation in Hungary
• ESA Science for Society Programme – Agriculture & Hydrology
• ESA Science for Society Programme – Application section
• Mission Status
  • Sentinel-1
  • Sentinel-2
  • ROSE-L
  • CHIME
  • FLEX
• Space-related activities in Hungary
• Data Access and Processing tools ESA
• Introduction to optical remote sensing for agriculture and water
• Introduction to SAR remote sensing for agriculture and water
• ESA SNAP Toolbox introduction
• SNAP exercise 01
• SNAP exercise 02

Day 2 – Tuesday 22 November 2022

• Crop type mapping and crop specific growth monitoring
• Land Surface Temperature
• Evapotranspiration
• In-situ data collection and preparation

Day 3 – Wednesday 23 November 2022

• Soil Moisture (Passive Microwave Radiometers, Scatterometers and SAR)
• Biophysical variables retrieval and time series smoothing

Day 4 – Thursday 24 November 2022

• Drought monitoring
• Irrigation mapping, detection and quantification
• Water Use Efficiency

Day 5 – Friday 25 November 2022

• Hyperspectral data for agriculture and water – Theoretical Lecture
• Hyperspectral data for agriculture and water – Practical Session

Training materials

• SNAP exercise 01
• SNAP exercise 02
• Evapotranspiration
• Crop type mapping and crop specific growth monitoring
• Biophysical variables retrieval and time series smoothing
• Soil moisture
• Drought monitoring
• Water Use Efficiency
• Hyperspectral
• Irrigation mapping