NOAA CoastWatch Satellite course - January 2023

January 18, 2023 through February 15, 2023

Wednesdays 3-5pm Eastern Time (Hybrid)

The goal of the course is to familiarize NOAA/university researchers, Sea Grant professionals and agency/org. partners with different types of ocean satellite data, different tools, and teach participants how to use satellite data in their own research/outreach using their choice of software (R, python, ArcGIS/QGIS, Matlab).

Course Content (UMD Canvas)

Registration (Google Form)

The course will cover :

• remote sensing basics
• example applications of satellite data
• sea surface temperature
• ocean color (chlorophyll, PAR, Kd490, ....)
• altimetry (sea surface height, currents)
• wind
• salinity
• water quality
• sea ice
• synthetic aperture radar
• which dataset to choose
• overview of different tools and platforms to access data
• various tutorials: NetCDF data, Panoply, ERDDAP, R, Python, ArcGIS, qGIS