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