18
Sep

AIT Summer School – Sentinel for water resources

Venue: CNR-IREA Stazione Sperimentale, Experimental Station Eugenio Zilioli, Sirmione (BS), Italy

Date: September 18th to September 22nd, 2017

Deadline: April 30th, 2017

Information Flyer: download here

Application form: download here

 

Objectives:

  • The School includes lectures covering an overview of the recent ESA Sentinel mission, Earth System Modelling, Data Assimilation, as well as hands-on data processing exercises.
  • The one-week course aims to provide students with an integrated end-to-end perspective ranging from measurement techniques to operational applications.
  • A boat excursion in southern part of Lake Garda will be organized with the goal to collect field data through ad-hoc instrumentation: water sampler and radiometric measurements. Sample collection will be carried out on Thursday 21st (weather permitting) exploiting the simultaneous scheduled acquisition of Sentinel-2 of Lake Garda A scientific visit to the Sun photometer station of the AERONET network – Catullo Grotte site – is also planned.