2021-unavco-course-GMTSAR

This is a short course repository for the 2020 UNAVCO GMTSAR short course

Instructors:

David Sandwell, Katherine Guns, Kathryn Materna, Rob Mellors, Kang Wang, Eric Lindsey, Matt Wei, Xiaohua Xu

Assisted by

Rebecca Bendick, Melissa Weber, Donna Charlevoix

Installation:

Please refer to the gmtsar wiki page https://github.com/gmtsar/gmtsar/wiki/GMTSAR-Wiki-Page for installation.

Need help?

Please ask your questions by opening an Issue insde this short course repository. You'll need a github account to do this. You could also write emails to your assigned instructor for help, but describing in details of the problems you met and keeping the thread readable will also help others. In cases you have a question during the lecture. We'll have instructors babysitting the chat window, and answer them. If they feel that the questions are important and need to be addressed by the lecturing instructor, they will interupt and ask that question.

Slack chat room

While the lectures go on, we will be holding a Slack chat room where you could pose questions and get answers in real-time. https://join.slack.com/t/21-gmtsarcourse/shared_invite/zt-s1xshucn-4hWJZ7a3MD5ybKQapsLG0A

Course Materials:

All course materials including slides, notes and video records will be uploaded to a shared Google Drive https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1SSS3TDKbsTjzd0Ydg7tI6HQzCx6mL39b?usp=sharing

Plenary Sessions

July 22-23 (Thursday - Friday), 2021, 10AM PDT - 1PM PDT (plus continuted breakout sessions)

DAY-1 - July 22:

Session 1 - 45 minutes

Number Theme Instructor
01 Introduction/agenda/photos Sandwell
02 UNAVCO and short courses Bendick
03 Homework, RS, SAR, and InSAR Sandwell
04 GMT Introduction and Student Topo Maps Guns
05 On-line Photo for 2021 Weber

Session 2 - 2 hours

Number Theme Instructor
06 Brief Introduction to InSAR Xu
07 Applications – volcanoes Mellors
08 Applications – earthquakes and postseismic Wang
09 Applications – hydrology and crustal fluids Materna
10 Applications – interseismic Lindsey
11 Atmosphere and Ionosphere Artifacts Wang
12 SAR data access Wei

Breakout session continue with assigned groups

DAY-2 – July 23

Session 3 – 1.5 hours

Number Theme Instructor
13 2-pass processing – tour of data files Materna
14 SAR Theory and orbits– Appendix A Sandwell
15 SAR Image formation – Appendix B Xu
16 InSAR Theory – Appendix C Lindsey

Session 4 – 1.5 hours

Number Theme Instructor
17 Phase filtering and unwrapping theory Mellors
18 Phase unwrapping – application – snaphu Wei
19 ScanSAR and TOPS Xu
20 Batch processing Lindsey or Tymofyeyeva

Breakout session continue with assigned groups