NITK Surathkal Remote Sensing

Can you tell me in detail about the Two-day workshop on Microwave Remote Sensing conducted in 2016 by NITK or National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surthakal?

[Rajkumar Agarwal]

The Two-day workshop on Microwave Remote Sensing conducted in 2016 by NITK or National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surthakal was essentially for developing capacity building in the use of Microwave data in various application fields.

The course helped the participants to take up R&D and utilization programs in the emerging area of frontier technologies like Polarimetry, Interferometry and Microwave Remote Sensing applications

The details about the Two-day workshop on Microwave Remote Sensing conducted in 2016 by NITK or National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surthakal are as follows:

Microwave Remote Sensing
17th – 18th October 2016

Important Dates
Registration Starts: 26th September, 2016
Registration Ends: 5th October, 2016
Selection Notification: 6th October, 2016
Event Date: 17th & 18th October, 2016

Course Layout

October 17th – Monday
09:00 – 10:00 AM: Introduction to Microwave Remote Sensing
10:00 – 11:00 AM: Understanding of SAR Images
11:00 – 11:30 AM: Tea Break
11:30 – 01:00 PM: SAR Polarimetric decomposition and classification
01:00 – 02:00 PM: Lunch Break
02:00 – 03:30 PM: Application of Polarimetric SAR Data
03:30 – 04:00 PM: Tea Break
04:00 – 05:30 PM: Practical / hands on experience with the data sets and software (Do it yourself)

October 18th – Tuesday
09:00 – 10:00 AM: SAR Interferometry (InSAR) for DEM generation
10:00 – 11:00 AM: Differential InSAR and PSInSAR for displacement map generation
11:00 – 11:30 AM: Tea Break
11:30 – 01:00 PM: Passive Microwave Remote Sensing and Applications
01:00 – 02:00 PM: Lunch Break
02:00 – 03:30 PM: Practical with InSAR, DInSAR and PSInSAR
03:30 – 04:00 PM: Tea Break
04:00 – 05:30 PM: Practical on Microwave Remote Sensing


Course was Open For
Engineers or Research scientists from University/Technical Institutes/Industries
Advanced level Post Graduation students/ Research Scholars
Faculty members from academic institutions
Intake is limited to 50 and will be on first come first served basis


NITK Surathkal Remote Sensing Workshop 2016