2023-Earthscope-Short-Course-GMTSAR

This is a short course repository for the 2023 GAGE GMTSAR short course

Instructors:

David Sandwell, Xiaohua Xu, Matt Wei, Xiaopeng Tong, Katherine Guns, Eric Lindsey, Kang Wang, Kathryn Materna, Wesley Neely, Wojciech Milczarek, Katia Tymofyeyeva, Wanpeng Feng, Wei Tang

Assisted by

Rebecca Bendick, Donna Charlevoix, Melissa Weber,

Installation:

Please refer to the gmtsar wiki page https://github.com/gmtsar/gmtsar/wiki/GMTSAR-Wiki-Page for installation.

Documentation, Book, Sample Data Sets:

https://topex.ucsd.edu/gmtsar/downloads/

Need help?

Please ask your questions by opening an Issue insde this short course repository. You'll need a github account to do so. You could also write emails to your assigned instructor for help or ask questions in the Slack chatroom. Describe in details of the problems you met and keeping the thread readable will also help others. In cases you have a question during the lecture, we'll have instructors babysitting the chatroom, and answer them. If the questions need to be addressed by the lecturing instructor, they will interupt and ask that question on your behalf.

Slack chat room

While the lectures go on, we will be holding a Slack chat room where you could pose questions and get answers in real-time. (Link TBD)

Course Materials:

All course materials including slides, notes and video records will be uploaded to a shared Google Drive/Youtube. (Link https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1hfO51thTyiU62zlHgm7PZl0ZCmYi8nCd?usp=drive_link )

Homework Assignments:

Please complete these homework assignments during the month before the plenary session with help from your instructor. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DxYpeX0opKJId_JAwHnhn6TdTXrv9YCd/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=104842063779453661156&rtpof=true&sd=true

Plenary Sessions

July 25-26 (Tuesday - Wednesday), 2023, 10AM PDT - 1PM PDT (plus continued breakout sessions)

DAY-1 - July 25:

Session 1 - 45 minutes

Number	Theme	Instructor
01	Introduction/agenda/photos	Sandwell
02	UNAVCO and short courses	Bendick
03	Homework, RS, SAR, InSAR & Topo maps	Sandwell
05	On-line Photo for 2021	Weber

Session 2 - 2 hours

Number	Theme	Instructor
05	Brief Introduction to GMTSAR	Xu
06	SAR Theory and orbits– Appendix A	Sandwell
07	InSAR theory – Appendix B	Lindsey
08	SAR acquisition modes	Xu
09	SAR data access, NISAR and CGM	Tymofyeyeva

Breakout session continue with assigned groups

DAY-2 – July 26

Session 3 – 1.5 hours

Number	Theme	Instructor
10	2-pass processing – tour of data files	Materna
11	Phase filtering and phase unwrapping	Wei
12	Atmospheric artifacts	Wang
13	Batch processing	Guns
14	InSAR corrections and time series	Tymofyeyeva

Session 4 – 1.5 hours

Number	Theme	Instructor
15	Applications – volcanoes	Tong
16	Applications – earthquakes and postseismic	Wang
17	Applications – hydrology and crustal fluids	Neely
18	Applications – interseismic	Lindsey
19	Applications – infrastructures	Milczarek

Breakout session continue with assigned groups