2024-Earthscope-Short-Course-GMTSAR

This is a short course repository for the 2024 GAGE GMTSAR short course

Instructors:

David Sandwell, Xiaohua Xu, Ann Chen, Matt Wei, Xiaopeng Tong, Katherine Guns, Eric Lindsey, Kang Wang, Kathryn Materna, Wojciech Milczarek, Katia Tymofyeyeva, Wanpeng Feng, Wei Tang

Assisted by

Rebecca Bendick, Donna Charlevoix, Melissa Weber,

Installation:

Please refer to the gmtsar wiki page https://github.com/gmtsar/gmtsar/wiki for installation.

Documentation, Book, Sample Data Sets:

https://topex.ucsd.edu/gmtsar/downloads/

Need help?

Please ask your questions by opening an Issue insde this short course repository. You'll need a github account to do so. You could also write emails to your assigned instructor for help or ask questions in the Slack chatroom. Describe 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 chatroom, and answer them. If the questions need to be addressed by the lecturing instructor, they will interupt and ask that question on your behalf.

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. (Link TBD)

Course Materials:

All course materials including slides, notes and video records will be uploaded to a shared Google Drive/Youtube. (Link https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1hfO51thTyiU62zlHgm7PZl0ZCmYi8nCd?usp=drive_link )

Homework Assignments:

Please complete these homework assignments during the month before the plenary session with help from your instructor. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DxYpeX0opKJId_JAwHnhn6TdTXrv9YCd/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=104842063779453661156&rtpof=true&sd=true

Plenary Sessions

July 1-2 and July 18 (Tuesday - Wednesday), 2024, 10AM PDT - 1PM PDT

DAY-1 - July 1:

Video - Day 1 (2023 recordings）

Session 1 - 45 minutes

Number	Theme	Instructor
01	Introduction/agenda/photos
02	Earthscope and short courses
03	Homework, RS, SAR, InSAR & Topo maps
04	On-line Photo for 2023

Session 2 - 2 hours

Number	Theme	Instructor
05	Brief Introduction to GMTSAR
06	SAR Theory and orbits
07	InSAR theory
08	SAR acquisition modes

DAY-2 – July 2

Video - Day 2 (2023 recordings)

Session 3 – 1.5 hours - Moderator: Kathryn Materna

Number	Theme	Instructor
09	SAR data access, NISAR and CGM
10	2-pass processing – tour of data files
11	Phase filtering and phase unwrapping
12	Atmospheric artifacts
13-14	Batch processing and time series
	Time series discussion

Session 4 – 1.5 hours - Moderator: Eric Lindsey

Number	Theme	Instructor
16	Applications – earthquakes and postseismic
17	Applications – hydrology and crustal fluids
18	Applications – interseismic
19	Applications – infrastructures
15	Applications – volcanoes

DAY-3 – July 17

Student presentations in small groups ~1 hour. Time TBD

DAY-4 – July 18

Vodeo - Student Presentations

Selected student presentations to entire group. 10AM PDT -