SAR Course Offered During UAF Summer Session

by Rudi Gens, ASF Remote Sensing Support Center

A two-week course, SAR and InSAR: Principles and Applications, will be offered for credit June 20 - July 1 at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Students and anyone else interested in working with SAR data are encouraged to enroll and gain a better understanding of:

• • operational SAR satellites and SAR sensors;
• • acquiring, processing and interpreting SAR data;
• • ordering data on the EOS data gateway;
• • geocoding SAR data;
• • generating a Digital Elevation Model;
• • processing data sets for their own research application and area of interest;
• • using the ASF RADARSAT-1 baseline catalog to determine what datasets would best meet their InSAR processing needs;
• • appreciating the variety of applicationsthat SAR and InSAR are used for; and
• • understanding the advantages and practical limitations of SAR and InSAR.

Details about the SAR course are available at http://www.uaf.edu/summer/docs/coursefinder.html.

For information about economical housing on campus, go to http://www.uaf.edu/summer/docs/housingfood.html.

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