Short Course: Earth Observation Data Analysis

This short course will cover a hands-on introduction to satellite imagery, image processing, and Earth observation data analysis techniques.

Through examples involving real-world data, you will learn the fundamentals of Data Science analyses and image processing, how to obtain satellite imagery and combine it with other georeferenced datasets, and how to explore research questions using satellite imagery. You will ultimately learn how to develop a software pipeline to extract, manipulate, and visualise Earth Observation (EO) imagery.

Course dates

Oct 15 - Nov 14, 2024. This includes 10 hands-on workshops: 2 x 2-hour workshops in the first two weeks, and 2 x 3-hour workshops in the final three weeks.

Course content

The workshops and online material will include explanations of key concepts, hands-on coding exercises, and applied EO data analysis projects where you can apply your new skills to real-world satellite imagery. The course will cover the following key themes:

Satellite imagery fundamentals

• Different types of satellites and associated imagery
• Fundamentals of image processing
• Satellite orbits and Earth observation sensors

Data Science best practise

• Cleaning, validating, and transforming your data
• Coding best practise
• Data science project organisation

Visualising satellite imagery

• Basic data visualisation in Python and Matplotlib
• Combining raster and vector images
• Interactive maps with Folium

Earth observation data platforms

• Digital Earth Australia Sandbox
• Google Earth Engine
• Extracting relevant satellite imagery

Data analyses with satellite imagery

• Exploring research questions with satellite imagery
• Mapping vegetation and greenhouse gas concentrations
• Time-series analysis and change mapping
• Performing global analyses

Course location

The workshops will be delivered face-to-face at Swinburne University in Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia, as well as online for those that cannot make it to campus.

Price

$1,230.50 (incl. GST) for a single ticket. Note that multi-ticket purchases will receive 25% off the price of each ticket ($923.00 incl. GST).

Multi-ticket 25% discount

If you wish to purchase more than one ticket for your organisation, note that you will receive a 25% discount on all tickets. To activate the discount, simply purchase two or more tickets in the one transaction, and the 25% discount will automatically be applied to all tickets. Contact Steve Petrie (spetrie@swin.edu.au) if you have any issues applying the multi-ticket discount.

For further information on the course please contact:

Dr Steve Petrie - spetrie@swin.edu.au