Remote sensing and advanced geomatics for environmental applications

Lecturer: prof. Alfonso Vitti (UNITN/DICAM)

Timetable: 3-7 May 2021 (the course is available online)

Monday 3/05 hours 13:30-15:30 - 15:30-17:30
Tuesday 4/05 hours 13:30-15:30 - 15:30-17:30
Wednesday 5/05 hours 9:30-11:30
Thursday 6/05 hours 8:30-10:30 - 15:30-17:30
Friday 7/05 hours 9:30-11:30 -11:30-13:30 / 15:30-17:30

Duration: 20 hours (2,5 credits)

Programme: This course deals with remote sensing, advanced methods for feature extraction and surface modelling, indirect retrieval of physical quantities from satellite measurements. The course provides an overview of satellite missions for Earth observation and environmental applications. Retrieval of physical quantities from satellite includes riverbed bathymetry from multi-spectral images and snow water equivalent from radar data. Digital surface models (DSM) are at the basis for the geometry definition in all numerical simulations of geophysical problems and in environmental engineering. The course deals with digital surface modelling via triangulated irregular network (TIN) and grids, DSM generation from stereo satellite images and with detection and modelling of geometric features of digital surfaces. The course presents variational models for segmentation and discontinuity detection in images and DSM.

1. Introduction to remote sensing and satellite missions
2. Digital elevation models from stereo satellite images
3. Interferometric SAR for snow water equivalent retrival
4. River bathimetry from multispectral satellite images

Registration: please send an email to dicamphd [at] unitn.it