Technical information about remote sensing

Air Quality Training: capabilities for air quality monitoring- presentations, demonstrations and
hands-on activities.

SDG target: 3.9.1 and 11.6.2

Particulate Matter

This training covers specific-details on the:

a. Data sets,
b. Available tools
c. Various method used to address derived aerosol optical aerosol optical depth (AOD) at
visible wavelength
d. Perform long term air quality trend analysis
e. Analyze air quality events

Health Applications

Environmental conditions adversely affects the health of millions of people. Environmental data
combined with public health information to predict and monitor potentially dangerous
environmental health events:

a. Predicting and monitoring-Disease outbreaks

b. Harmful algal blooms
c. Excessive heat
d. Airborne allergens
e. Low air quality
f. Mapping and forecasting Mosquito-Borne Disease Risk
g. Tools available for evaluating the relationship between environmental conditions and
health outcomes
h. Atmospheric transport models
i. Application and hands-on

High resolution NO2 monitoring from space with TROPOMI/Sentinel-5P

a. Monitoring of NO2,
b. monitoring air pollution (urban)-levels of surface ozone
c. emissions estimation of ground level PM2.5 concentrations with satellite data and trace
gas products
d. detecting Al, CO, SO2, and HCHO
e. exercises include: reading, mapping, extracting over a point location, gridding the data
and dumping the data to a CSV file

Satellite remote sensing of air quality: data, tools and applications

 a. air quality forecasting
b. smoke/ fire detection
c. P.M25 monitoring
d. Modeling
e. Visualization tools to identify, track, measure air quality events
f. Image interpretation
g. Methods, data access, and applications

Introduction to satellite remote sensing for air quality applications

a. Data and tools for air quality applications

b. Practical use of satellite observations for visibility and air quality analysis
c. Radiative balance
d. Emissions inventories and photochemical model evaluation
e. Identification of long range transport-mapping, trends, time-series, inter-comparisons,
and validation of aerosol and trace gas data
f. Comparison of surface particulate measurements and satellite measurements aerosols
(aerosol optical depth particulate matter) AOD-PM- relationship, modeling and
estimation and resources for dust and smoke monitoring.
g. Tropospheric column NO2 (OMI), boundary layer SO2 and total column and profile
measurement of CO (MOPITT)

Land Resources Management

SDG targets: 11.3.1 and 15.3.1- 15.1.1

Investigating time series of satellite imagery

a. To identify trends and changes (e.g. forest disturbance, land cover changes,
vegetation health and agriculture monitoring and expansion)
b. Change detection methods and analysis, including image subtraction and
classification
c. Enables you to integrate point or polygon ground-based data with satellite imagery
d. To analyze land cover dynamics, including short-term disturbance and long term
trends.
e. Time series techniques: land surface reflectance
f. Creating a map of change, magnitude of change, duration of change event and pre-
change spectral values
g. How to visualize change

Land cover classification

a. Step to land cover and classification

b. Analyze spectral signatures of land cover types,
c. Conduct supervised and unsupervised land cover classification
 d. Analyzing differences in spectral signatures

Accuracy assessments of land cover classification

a. Create supervised classification

b. To evaluate the performance of a land cover map using accuracy assessments
c. Sample designs for accuracy assessment
d. Develop and interpret an error matrix

Creating and using Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI)

a. Acquire, use and derive

b. NDVI images to derive time series and NDVI anomaly maps

Techniques for Drought Wild Fire Detection and Monitoring

a. To monitor drought conditions and assess impacts on the ecosystem using

a. Precipitation
b. Soil moisture
c. Vegetation data
d. Groundwater
e. Evapotranspiration
b. Tools for drought classification, monitoring and visualization
c. Calculate anomalies within a geospatial software

Land degradation and sustainable cities

a. Land cover matrix : productivity, land cover, soil organic carbon, urban expansion
b. Land degradation and urban development
c. Times series of key land change indicators
d. Calculate urban change metrics
e. Net primary productivity

Forest Cover ad change assessment for carbon

a. Carbon monitoring for terrestrial ecosystems

b. Land management applications
c. Carbon estimation techniques and methods
d. Conducting accuracy assessments
e. Guidance on reporting and verification of carbon estimates

Conservation management

a. Habitat monitoring
 b. Life mapper
c. Animal movement
d. Species population dynamics

Scenario-based Ecoforecasting (Climate change)

a. Tools for ecological forecasting

b. Data for ecological modeling
c. Scenario planning
d. Application of modeling for species distribution
e. State-and-transition simulations
f. Future projections of management targets

Indigenous-Led Land Management

a. Tools to enhance Sustainable land management practices

b. Image interpretation relevant to sustainable land management
c. Mapping traditional ecological knowledge
d. Cultural heritage, forest monitoring and fire management
e. Systems for early warning and alerts

Coastal and ocean applications

a. Tools for processing and analyzing imagery for coastal and ocean applications
b. Coral reef health

Water resources

Water quality monitoring

a. Tools for monitoring, interpretation and applications to water quality in coastal oceans,
estuaries and lakes
b. Harmful algal blooms, sediments and other water pollutants
c. Water cycle capacity building
d. Water quality parameters- chlorophyll-a concentration, temperature, color dissolved
organic matter (CDOM), turbidity, euphotic depth.

Hydrographic watersheds (water cycle)

a. Monitoring and predicting water-related disasters

b. Precipitation estimates
c. Soil moisture
d. Evapotranspiration
e. Land classification
f. Ground water monitoring
g. Runoff
 h. Reservoir heights
i. Hydrological models

Freshwater habitats

a. Land use and land cover change in a watershed

b. Habitat connectivity along a water body
c. Water body location and extent
d. Water quality parameters
e. Tools and techniques for applying landscape environmental variables to genetic and
habitat diversity species
f. Riverscape analysis
g. Freshwater health index

Water budgets for river basin management

a. Sustainable allocation of water

b. Modeling data sources to estimate surface water budgets
c. And their temporal variability in sub-watersheds within river basins
d. Hydrological modeling (VIC) Variable Infiltration Capacity: soil moisture,
evapotranspiration and runoff as outputs. Precipitation data
e.
f.

Flood monitoring and management

a. To track and map flooding

b. Assess affected areas
c. Learn how they can integrate satellite data into your own decision-making processes.
d. Precipitation, temperature, humidity and wind data

Disaster management

a. Climate variability, hydrology and flooding

a. Temperature
b. Precipitation
c. Soil moisture
d. Land cover
e. Terrain
f. Streamflow
g. Surface inundation
h. Digital elevation and terrain data
b. Flood mapping tools- short term flood forecasting (forecast models together with
socioeconomic and infrastructure data
c. Seasonal climate outlook
 d. Post flood relief planning using GIS framework

Disaster Risk Management

a. Useful modeling resources for managing a variety of disasters: earthquakes,

tsunamis, volcanoes, floods, landslides, wildfires, oil spills.
Flood monitoring

a. Tools relevant for monitoring climate and flooding such as temperature, precipitation,
soil moisture, land-cover and terrain
b. Access, analysis and visualization modeling for monitoring climate variability and
hydrological parameters.
c. Identify affected areas and population
d. Earth system modeling and mapping precipitation, weather data, land cover, and soil
moisture: input data access and analysis: precipitation, soil moisture, winds, humidity,
sea level rise pressure, terrain and socioeconomic data

Urban floods

a. Mapping of impervious surface

b. Storm water drainage
c. Mapping of flooding
d. Waterlogged and ponded surfaces
e. Aid in planning early warning systems, flood response, flood recovery efforts
f. Causes and risks associated with urban flooding
g. Urban floodplain detection
h. Emergency preparedness to monitor tropical storms/ cyclones

Introduction to synthetic aperture data

a. Interpret the information in SAR images

b. Pre-processing activities
c. Potential application of PolSAR and InSAR
d. Focus on different techniques such as time series, polarimetry, and interferometry for
mapping and monitoring:
a. Disaster
b. Water
c. Land cover applications such as deforestation, crops, flooding and earthquakes
d. Surface deformation