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Meetings: Tuesday 9:00-10:15 in 203 Robinson Hall and Friday 11:15-12:30 in 207 Robinson Hall

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• NEWS 5/18: Food, drink, and company May-20, pm at Deer Park (instructor pays)
• NEWS 5/18: Added new section linking to Scripps Institution of Oceanography resources
• NEWS 5/18: Posted lecture on "Spectral pixel indentification" .ppt
• NEWS 5/11: Posted lecture on SST .ppt

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Instructor: Andreas Münchow

Goal: Provide each student with a set of tools and skills to confidently handle and understand Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) data and its application to oceanography and meteorology.

Format: We will use a number of active learning methods with a strong focus on working in teams to approach solutions to open-ended problems in oceanography and meteorology ("problem-based learning"). This will include writing and presentation of proposed solutions to such problems. The instructor will give introductory lectures, but this will NOT be a traditional lecture style course.

Resources:

• A list of internet resources used in class
• A list of internet resources used in my research
• We will use a Unix server for this course to facilitate uniform processing of MODIS data products using only available open-source codes, some of which we will write and modify.

Expectations: Each student shall

• retrieve original (level-0) MODIS satellite data (met 5/18);
• convert level-0 to calibrated and corrected level-1B data (met 5/18);
• subsample and graphically present level-1B data (met 5/18);
• project data onto appropriate longitude latitude frames as regular grids (met 5/18);
• identify pixel classifications (clouds, ice, water, etc.) using reflectance ratios (not met 5/18);
• conduct statistical and timeseries analyses of gridded optical properties (not met 5/18);
• research, write, edit findings from problem-based projects (met 5/18);
• demonstrate individual mastery of basic concepts and ideas (met 5/18).

Grading: 60% for problem-based projects, 40% individual in-class participation and presentations.

Exam: None, but occasional quizzes related to lectures

Old News:
• 5/7: Posted Level-2 Processing Lab Session .pdf
• 4/28: Ocean Color Seminars April-30 10am (Dr.Philpot) and 3pm (Dr. Kumar)
• 4/28: Posted .ppt on "Motion Vectors" replaces Class May-4
• 4/21: Posted comment and first project-1 results on student's web-pages
• 4/27: Class Wed. Apr.-28 2pm in 206 Robinson on "Motion Vectors" replaces Class May-4
• 4/21: Posted ImagageMagick Lab Session .pdf
• 4/20: Posted 1st Project Assignment .pdf
• 4/20: Updated useful links regarding Iceland and html
• 4/16: Launched Student Web-Sites Access
• 4/16: Posted HTML Lab Session .pdf
• 4/14: Posted Lecture Notes .pdf
• 4/07: Posted GMT Lab Session .pdf
• 4/07: Posted GMT Lab Session .pdf
• 4/07: Posted Lecture Notes: .pdf
• 3/23: Posted Study Guide Questions: .pdf
• 3/23: Posted Lecture Notes: .pdf
• 3/19: Posted Lab5 Assignment: .pdf
• 3/18: Posted Lecture Notes: .pdf
• 3/5: Posted Lab03 Assignment: .pdf
• 3/3: Posted Lecture Notes: .pdf (correct Eq.-3.3 included)
• 2/24: Posted Lab2b Fortran (from Naval Postgraduate School)
• 2/18: Posted Lab2a: Shell-scripting
• 2/17: Posted Lecture-1 as .ppt file
• 2/17: Posted Modis videos at Link page
• 2/17: Created Class Web-Page

Last updated: Tue May 18 12:07:23 EDT 2010