PhD course in “Radar remote sensing”
Radar remote sensing
About the course:
- FYS8810 “Radar remote sensing” (PhD level, but also appropriate for MSc-students, 10 ECTs for registered)
- The course will give the theoretical foundations of important aspects of radar remote sensing, and provide new students in the field a sufficient introductory understanding to explore specific applications in more detail.
- Free course
- Duration: 5 days/25 lectures, plus project work.
- Dates: 25-29 January 2016
- Assessment: Project report, plus oral exam.
- Venue: UiT
- Course responsible: Professor Torbjørn Eltoft
- Organizer: CIRFA, Department of Physics and Technology, UiT
- Course credits: PhD and Master’s students from outside UiT will have to apply for credits at their home institutions. We will provide course certificates. UiT students attending will receive a separate form to be submitted for course approval.
Expected background: Fundamentals of EM waves, fundamental signal & image processing, and statistics. (One lecture = 45 minutes).
Syllabus:
- Basic EM theory (4 lectures – TE)
- EM wave description
- Wave interaction with matter
- Wave polarization
- Rough surface scattering
- Introduction to radar (3 lectures – HJ)
- Basic radar principle
- Antennas
- Radar equation
- SAR image formation (4 lectures – YL)
- Foundations of signal processing
- Basic SAR imaging principles
- Overview of SAR image modes
- Corrections and calibrations
- Speckle statistics (2 lectures – TE)
- Statistics of basic radar parameters
- Texture models
- Speckle filtering
- Image segmentation and classification (3 lectures – APD)
- Bayesian classifiers
- Neural networks
- Feature extraction
- Principle of scatterometry and altimetry (1 lecture – HJ)
- Basic RAR polarimetry (1 lecture – TE)
- Basic interferometry (1 lectures – TG)
- Applications: Sea Ice (2 lecture – WD)
- Application: Ocean (1 lecture – HJ)
- Application: Oil spill (1 lecture – SS)
- Interpretation: Projects
Textbooks: Oliver & Quegan: “Understanding Synthetic Aperture Radar Images”
Richards: “Remote Sensing with Imaging Radar”
Lee & Pottier: “Polarimetric Radar Imaging: From Basics to Applications”
The course will be counting as a 10 ECTs, and accepted as part of the theoretical component in a PhD degree.