Can we tell if there is a drought or flood in an area of interest, using historical (time series) soil water content (SWC) data and can we predict future droughts? In this workshop, you’ll learn how to condition and exploit ambiguous and imperfect data to derive meaningful and actionable insights to answer these questions!
Register Here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/leveraging-microwave-data-for-real-world-solutions-tickets-951110235317?aff=oddtdtcreator
This workshop three hours long and will be on two separate days: August 13th at 9am and August 14th at 1pm, and will be held completely online! It will be lead by Karen Kowalewsky and Aiden Mornhinweg from Riverside Research.
Learning Outcomes
- Process and integrate microwave data
- Create a soil water content map
- Assess the results of the soil water content map
- Verify and validate accuracy of soil water content maps and drought assessment
Theme
Processing, Conditioning, Exploitation
Skills-to-Know
While this is a new learning experience and only basic math skills are required for this workshop, one or more of the following skills could provide a more seamless experience:
Satellite Imagery, remote sensing, and GIS
Tech Requirements
Hardware
Computer
Software
QGIS – this is a free program and can run on any OS. Downloading QGIS: Download QGIS. We are using QGIS 3.38.0 ‘Grenoble’ for this workshop. Slightly older versions should work too.
4 Gigs of storage on your device or cloud for data
Itinerary
Morning Session
9am: Event Start & Introductions
9:15am: Part 1 Seminar (Karen)
9:45am: Part 2 Case Study Interactive Demo (Aidan)
11:45am-12pm: Feedback/Wrap-Up
Evening Session
1pm: Event Start & Introductions
1:15pm: Part 1 Seminar (Karen)
1:45pm: Part 2 Case Study Interactive Demo (Aidan)
3:45-4pm: Feedback/Wrap-Up
