Summer School

An introduction to the Summer School

ICE-CSIC does forefront scientific and technological research with the mission of contributing to our understanding of the Cosmos.

Our centre organises a Summer School for Master and PhD students every year in summer, usually during the month of July.

Students from everywhere have the opportunity to broaden their knowledge, network with researchers and use the experience acquired for their thesis, PhD or post-doc research in the future.

The 3rd Institute of Space Sciences Summer School toke place in Barcelona, from July 1rst until July 5th, 2019. The theme was Geoscience and Remote Sensing society (GRSS). It focused on SAR principles, modes of operation, spaceborne instrument, processing, interferometric SAR, bi-static SAR, reflectometry using Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) and other Sources of OPportunity (SoOP) and Lidar

3rd Summer School

Geoscience and Remote Sensing society (GRSS)

The Instrumentation and Future Technologies Technical Committee (IFT) is one of the six technical committees of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS). Its mission is to foster international cooperation in advancing the state-of-the-art in geoscience remote sensing instrumentation and technologies that improve knowledge for the betterment of society and the global environment.

The 3rd Institute of Space Sciences Summer School was linked to the 1st IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS) Instrumentation and Future Technologies (IFT) Remote Sensing Summer School (IFT-R3S).

The objective of the first Summer School on Instrumentation and Future Technologies for Remote Sensing (IFT-R3S) was to promote future research in remote sensing, to connect prospective PhD students to research topics under the IEEE GRSS IFT Technical Committee, and to highlight the educational activities of the GRSS society. This IFT-R3S was intended to be the first of an itinerant series (annual or biannual) of IFT-R3S editions, moving to different towns and continents and hosted by other Instrumentation and Future Technologies Technical Committee (IFT-TC) groups.

The school was open to any interested scientist and engineer, but it focused on Master’s students, junior PhD students, and young professionals, as a way to promote research careers in remote sensing technologies in general, and instrumentation and future technologies in particular.

Topics

SAR principles, operation modes, spaceborne SAR instruments
SAR processing
SAR interferometry, Bi-static SAR
GNSS Reflectometry and Radio Occultation
Reflectometry with other Sources of Opportunity (SoOP)
GNSS-R and SoOP-R instruments
Lidar principles
Lidar applications

Hands-on & activities

Visit to the UPC laboratories
IEEE GRSS IDEA Program Presentation
Lidar instruments and processing techniques

Where?

The school was held at our institute. Please check the information on how to arrive here.

Registration

◉Registration will be open from 04/02/2019 until 26/04/2019
◉ Selected participants will be notified by 30/04/2019
◉ School will run from 01/07/2019 to 05/07/2019

Lecturers 2019

Adriano Camps – Past President IEEE-GRSS, UPC, Spain
Lídia Cucurull – National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, USA
Scott Hensley – NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory, CA, USA
Marwan Younis – DLR, Germany
Pau Prats – DLR, Germany
Estel Cardellach – Institute of Space Sciences (ICE-CSIC), Spain
Rashmi Shah – NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory, CA, USA
Serni Ribó – Institute of Space Sciences (ICE-CSIC), Spain
Adolfo Comerón – Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain
Upendra N. Singh – Chair IEEE GRSS IFT, NASA/Langley Research Center, VA, USA
Alex Papayannis – President ICLAS, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece
Prof. Albert Aguasca – Airborne SAR and MWR
Prof. Sebastian Blanch – Anechoic Chamber
Prof. Antoni Broquetas – GB-SAR and Rain Radar
Prof. Adriano Camps – NanoSat Lab
Dr. Roger Jové – Microwave Radiometers
Mr. Raúl Onrubia – GNSS-R
Mr. Adrián Pérez – RFI Detection and Mitigation
Prof. Francesc Rocadenbosch – LIDAR
Prof. Hyuk Park – UPC tour guide
Mr. Joan Francesc Muñoz – UPC tour guide
Mr. Rubén Barragán – UPC tour guide
Dr. Israel Durán – UPC tour guide
Dr. Shawn C. Kefauver – IEEE GRSS IDEA Program Presentation

Local and Scientific Organising Committees

Estel Cardellach (general chair)
Georgios Tzeremes (technical and educational contents - Lidar)
Mariko Burgin (GRSS communications POC)
Marwan Younis (technical and educational contents - SAR)
Noemí Cortés (Logistics and Finance)
Rashmi Shah (technical and educational contents --GNSS/SoOP)
Upendra N. Singh (link to GRSS)

Past editions

2023

Life Cycle of Dust

2022

Modified gravities, Inflation and Primordial Perturbations: theory and computing

2021

Artificial Intelligence for Astronomy

2020

Suspended due to the Covid-19 health crisis

2019

Geoscience and Remote Sensing society (GRSS)

2018

Gravitational Wave Astronomy

2017

Neutron Stars and their Environments

Contact us

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