Graduate School Course in Geomatics 2010
October 25-29, 2010
Aalto University School of Science and Technology, Department of
Surveying, has the pleasure of inviting you to attend a four day graduate
school course in October 2010 in Espoo, Finland. The main themes of the
course are GPS carrier phase interferometry and new SAR (synthetic aperture radar) techniques and applications.
The course is aimed at graduate students in the field of
Geomatics, but we welcome students and all interested
parties of other fields as well. Lectures are given in English.
The lecturers
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jan Johansson,
Chalmers university of technology, Department of Radio and Space Science
Dr.-Ing. Kostas Papathanassiou, DLR German Aerospace Center
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Uwe Sörgel, Leibniz Universtät Hannover, Institute of Photogrammetry and GeoInformation
The course is sponsored by Geotrim Oy and The Finnish Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing.
Program
| Monday Oct 25. GPS carrier phase interferometry in Earth studies Day 1: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jan Johansson, Lecture hall M1 |
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| 9:00 - 10:45 | Fundamentals of GPS carrier phase interferometry |
| 10:45 - 11:00 | Break |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | GPS measurement and processing strategies |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch break |
| 13:30 - 15:00 | Use of GPS in monitoring the environment and in geodynamics |
| 15:00 - 15:15 | Break |
| 15:15 - 17:00 | Exotic uses of GPS |
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| Wednesday Oct 27. SAR theory and polarimetry Day 2: Dr.-Ing. Kostas Papathanassiou, Lecture hall M1 |
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| 9:00 - 10:45 | Fundamentals of microwave remote sensing and radars |
| 10:45 - 11:00 | Break |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | Theory of SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch break |
| 13:30 - 15:00 | SAR polarimetry |
| 15:00 - 15:15 | Break |
| 15:15 - 17:00 | Applications of SAR polarimetry |
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| Thursday Oct 28. SAR interferometry Day 3: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Uwe Sörgel, Lecture hall M4 |
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| 9:00 - 10:45 | Fundamentals of SAR interferometry |
| 10:45 - 11:00 | Break |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | SAR interferometry for DEM (digital elevation model) Generation |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch break |
| 13:30 - 15:00 | PSI (Persistent Scatterer Interferometry) and advanced techniques |
| 15:00 - 15:15 | Break |
| 15:15 - 17:00 | Mapping of urban areas using SAR techniques |
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| Friday Oct 29. Finnish SAR scene Day 4: Jaan Praks, Jarkko Koskinen, Mika Karjalainen, Kirsi Karila, Yrjö Rauste Lecture hall M1 |
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| 9:00 - 10:45 | Aalto University School of Science and Technology |
| 10:45 - 11:00 | Break |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | Finnish Meteorological Institute |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch break |
| 13:30 - 15:00 | Finnish Geodetic Institute |
| 15:00 - 15:15 | Break |
| 15:15 - 17:00 | VTT Technical Research Centre |
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Credits
Students are given 1 credit of attending three of the four days of lectures. There is also a possibility to get extra credits by giving a seminar presentation and writing a publication. The deadline for the seminar and its oral presentation is December 31, 2010. The publication has no deadline and it can be published for example in the Photogrammetric Journal of Finland. Please check the compatibility of the subject with your own institute.
Costs
The course is free of charge, but the attendants must pay for their meals, travel and accommodation expenses.
Registration
Please email your name and student number to Katri Koistinen (firstname.lastname@tkk.fi) and write "Graduate School Course in Geomatics 2010" to the subject line. The registration is open until Oct 24, 2010.
Contact
Questions concerning the course can be sent to Juho Lumme (firstname.lastname@tkk.fi)
How to get here?
Helsinki University of Technology is situated in Otaniemi, Espoo, 10 km from the centre of Helsinki. The street address is Otakaari 1 TKK main building.
You can travel to Otaniemi from Helsinki city center by bus no. 102 or 103 from Kamppi, or bus no. 194 or 195 from Elielinaukio. Timetables can be search from the web page http://aikataulut.ytv.fi/reittiopas/en/.
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