Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Hurricane Tracking with Satellite Data
This online course explored the basic concepts of satellite remote sensing of hurricanes using Python 3.0.
5 weeks, 3 hours per week
Astrid Werkmeister
Teaching associate
University of Strathclyde
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- What data is and its different forms
- What a satellite is and how its applications produce valuable data
- Basic data analysis techniques such as descriptive statistics using Python
- Ability to access and process satellite application data
Syllabus
- Hurricanes
- How do they form? Where do they occur?
- Hurricane Prediction models
- Hurricane Preparedness
- Hurricane Damage Control
- Satellites and their applications
- Orbits
- Payloads
- Sensors
- Datasets
- What different formats of data are there?
- Location Point
- Temporal Data
- Map Data
- Contour Data on a Map
- Introduction to Python
- Installation
- Packages (Pandas, Cartopy, Numpy etc)
- Data visualization
Issued on 13th August 2024
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