Welcome to the tutorial titled "Scattering-based Processing of PolSAR Data for Ocean Applications", presented by Prof. Andrea Buono, and please pay attention to the following tutorial requirements.
Please be aware that this is a practical tutorial, during which the attendants will work on actual SAR data by themselves following the guide of the lecturer. It is suggested to bring a laptop computer to the tutorial to make real-time processing. Before attending the tutorial, participants are kindly requested to:
1.Register themselves on the Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem by creating a personal account to access ESA Sentinel data free of charge:
https://dataspace.copernicus.eu/ (click on the green icon on the top right)
2.After registration, login, search and download the following Sentinel-1 dataset from the Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem:
S1A_IW_SLC__1SDV_20241025T103344_20241025T103414_056258_06E381_D19F
3.Download, according to the operating system of their machine, the free-of-charge ESA Sentinel Application Platform (Sentinel Toolboxes are only needed) to process SAR data. version 8.0.0. Newer SNAP versions (up to 11.0.0) have been released by ESA, but the real-time processing will be made using SNAP version 8.0.0. Please do not apply for updates after the installation:
https://step.esa.int/main/download/snap-download/previous-versions/
A brief introduction supported by few slides will be provided at the beginning of the tutorial to discuss the roadmap and the objective of this practical session.Note that all the above-mentioned steps will be performed in real-time during the tutorial. Continuous interaction with the lecturer is warmly suggested. Further quantitative analysis of the Sentinel-1 SAR dataset pre-processed with the ESA SNAP software will be performed using the Matlab 2021b environment.On request, introductory slides and Matlab code can be provided to the participants after the tutorial.