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Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
The Frozen Frontier: Monitoring the Greenland Ice Sheet from Space
European Space Agency
This online course provided an introduction to the use of satellite Earth Observation (EO) data for monitoring the Greenland ice sheet. It gave an overview of the role of ice in the climate system and the impact and implications of a warming climate on the Greenland ice sheet. It also looked at the types of measurements possible from satellites like CryoSat and the technologies and techniques involved. The course was run by European Space Agency (ESA).
3 weeks, 4 hours per week
Professor Konrad Steffen
Director of the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest,
Snow & Landscape Research
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Explore how we observe and measure ice sheets in situ and from satellites
- Explore the operational elements of satellite missions like Cryosat, which monitor the Greenland ice sheet
- Understand the complexity of the dynamics involved in melting ice sheet systems
- Data processing methods from Cryosat and other satellite missions
- Investigate how satellite data models enable a complete picture of changes in the ice sheet and how this is used in policy decision making
Syllabus
- Satellite Earth Observation technology, terminology and the types of data products available when monitoring ice sheets
- Understanding the unique measurements of ice thickness and dynamics which satellite data can provide
- How to access process and work with Earth observation data and ice sheet measuring tools
- The use of Earth observation data in a range of scientific, policy and decision-making areas, in conjunction with models
Issued on 12th August 2017
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