A Collection of NASA ARSET Courses for Flood Mapping and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)

Training

Targeted at ARSET courses on Flood Mapping and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR). This repo was inspired by the Awesome SAR repository.

Beginner

ARSET - Developing Sustainable Earth Science Applications

ARSET - Fundamentals of Remote Sensing

• Session 1: Fundamentals of Remote Sensing
• Session 1A: NASA's Earth Observing Fleet
• Session 2A: Satellites, Sensors, Data and Tools for Land Management and Wildfire Applications
• Session 2B: Satellites, Sensors, and Earth Systems Models for Water Resources Management
• Session 2C: Fundamentals of Aquatic Remote Sensing

ARSET - Fundamentals of Machine Learning for Earth Science

• Part 1: Overview of Machine Learning
• Part 2: Training Data and Land Cover Classification Example
• Part 3: Model Tuning, Parameter Optimization, and Additional Machine Learning Algorithms

ARSET - Satellite Remote Sensing of Flood Monitoring and Management

Day 1:

• Satellite Remote Sensing for Flood Monitoring and Management
• Data Access and Analysis: Precipitation, Terrain, Socioeconomic Data
• Overview of ISRO Satellite Remote Sensing for Flood Monitoring & Mapping (ISRO)
• Data Access and Analysis: Hydrological Variables, Optical, SAR, Scatterometer, and Altimeter

Day 2:

• Overview of Flood Monitoring and Mapping Based on Remote Sensing of Land
• Overview and Applications of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)
• SAR Applications for Flood Mapping
• Overview of Flood Monitoring and Mapping Based on Precipitation Data
• ISRO Flood Monitoring and Modeling Tools
• Near Real-Time Flood Monitoring
• Flood Monitoring Case Studies

ARSET - NASA Remote Sensing for Flood Monitoring and Management

• Session 1A: Precipitation from Remote Sensing Measurements
• Session 1B: Digital Elevation Data from Remote Sensing
• Session 2A: Overview of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Data for Flood Detection
• Session 2B: Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Mission
• Session 3A: Flood Management and Monitoring Tools
• Session 3B: Flood Monitoring and Management Case Study

ARSET - Introduction to Synthetic Aperture Radar

• Session 1: Basics of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)
• Session 2: SAR Processing and Data Analysis
• Session 3: Introduction to Polarimetric SAR
• Session 4: Introduction to SAR Interferometry

Intermediate/Advanced

ARSET - Monitoring and Modeling Floods using Earth Observations

• Part 1: Overview of Flood Monitoring Tools based on Remote Sensing Observations
• Part 2: Overview of Flood Modeling

ARSET - Radar Remote Sensing for Land, Water, & Disaster Applications

• Session 1: This session will cover synthetic aperture radar (SAR) applications for mapping land cover and land cover change, including deforestation. We will address the challenges encountered when mapping these types of applications, and how to best address them.
• Session 2: This session will cover using SAR for mapping flooded areas and flood dynamics in natural and urban environments.
• Session 3: This session will cover using cover using SAR for mapping crop growth.
• Session 4: This session will cover using interferometric SAR to map surface deformation related to earthquakes.

ARSET - SAR for Landcover Applications

• Part One: Monitoring Flood Extent with Google Earth Engine
• Part Two: Exploiting SAR to Monitor Agriculture

ARSET - SAR for Disasters and Hydrological Applications

• Part One: SAR for Flood Mapping Using Google Earth Engine
• Part Two: Interferometric SAR for Landslide Observations
• Part Three: Generating a Digital Elevation Model (DEM)

ARSET - Disaster Assessment Using Synthetic Aperture Radar

• Part 1: Floods
• Part 2: Landslides
• Part 3: Oil Spills

ARSET - SAR for Detecting and Monitoring Floods, Sea Ice, and Subsidence from Groundwater Extraction:

• Part 1: Detecting and Monitoring Sea Ice with SAR
• Part 2: Measuring Surface Subsidence due to Groundwater Extraction with InSAR
• Part 3: Detecting and Monitoring Floods with SAR