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Satellite Course

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In October 2018, OceanWatch organized a 3-day satellite course at PIFSC following the model developed in 2006 by Cara Wilson and Dave Foley from CoastWatch West Coast.
The course was a mix of lectures, tutorials and hands-on computer work on individual projects.

All course materials were developed and adapted over the years by:

• Cara Wilson, Dave Foley, Dale Robinson, Roy Mendelssohn - CoastWatch West Coast, SouthWest Fisheries Science Center
• Shelly Tomlinson, Ron Vogel - CoastWatch East Coast
• Melanie Abecassis, Jeff Polovina - OceanWatch Central Pacific

Materials from the course can be downloaded below. If you would like to get notified of future courses, please email us.

The most up-to-date version of the materials is available as a Gitbook here: https://oceanwatch.gitbook.io/satellite-course/.

• LECTURES
1. Introduction (PDF 0.99MB)
2. Remote Sensing Basics (PDF 32.7MB)
3. Applications of Satellite Data (PDF 17MB)
4. Sea Surface Temperature (PDF 6.24MB)
5. Ocean Color (PDF 8.35MB)
6. Altimetry, Wind, Salinity (PDF 3.4MB)
7. Tools (2.93MB)


• TUTORIALS
1. Voyager (data viewer) (PDF 1.79MB)
2. NetCDF, Panoply (PDF 732 KB)
3. ERDDAP (data access) (PDF 1.04MB)
4. How to work with satellite data in R (PDF 397KB)


• R SCRIPTS
1. How to work with satellite data in R (code) (.R 3KB)
   You will also need this file (.R 2KB)
2. Comparison of chlorophyll data from different sensors (.R 5KB)
   You will also need this file (.nc 15.6MB)
3. Extract data within a shapefile using ERDDAP (.R 6KB)
   You will also need this file (.csv 57KB)
4. Extract data along a turtle track (.R 6KB)
   You will also need this file