WELCOME toMETIER: Course 6

Remote Sensing of the Hydrosphere,3­7 November, 2008, Helsinki

Marie Curie Series of Events METIER = METhodsof Interdisciplinar Environmental Research

• Course 1: Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere• Course 2: Information Management• Course 3: Remote Sensing of the Land Surface• Course 4: Geo­Visualization• Course 5: Ecological Modelling• Course 6: Remote Sensing of the Hydrosphere• Course 7: Scenario Development and forcasting• Final Conference: Science meets Society

• Host of this course: SYKE = Finnish EnvironmentInstitute

Training Course 6: Remote sensing & hydrosphereScientist in charge: prof. Juha Kämäri, Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE)Location:  SYKE Helsinki, FinlandContent:­ Remote sensing essentials, databases:GIS databases and handling tools for modelling purposesRemote sensing of soil moisture & snow  & flood area & water qualityDatabase structures for storing operational remote sensing data­ Tools for hydrological, water quality and bio­optical modellingHydrological modellingWater quality & bio­optical modellingIntegration of modelling, intensive measurements andremote sensing data in studying the water quality of a lake­ The value of GIS & remote sensed data for society­ Assimilation of remote sensing and environmental models:Theory of assimilation

METIER Training Course 6

Who is here?

• 24 attendees: PhD students, early stageresearchers &experienced researchers(out of 50 applicants) from all over Europe.Nationalities world wide.

InternationalAttendees

Gender13 male, 11 female

International lecturers• Wolfgang Wagner, Inst. of Photogrammetry

and Remote Sensing, Vienna University ofTechnology Austria

• Steef Peters, Institute for EnvironmentalStudies, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, TheNetherlands

• Andrew Wade, Reading University, AquaticEnvironmental Research Centre UK

• Dagmar Haase, Helmholtz Centre forEnvironmental Research ­ UFZ

Finnish lecturers• Finnish Environment

Institute, Helsinki andJyväskylä

• Finnish MeteorologicalInstitute

• Helsinki University ofTechnology (+ lab visit)

• T­Kartor (privatecompany)

METIER course 6: Remote Sensing of the Hydrosphere, Helsinki, Finnish Environment Institute 3rd ­ 7th November, 2008Monday, 3rd Nov Tuesday, 4rd Nov Wednesday, 5rd Nov Thursday, 6rd Nov Friday, 7rd Nov

Theme of dayRemote sensing, general & datahandling Water quality

Hydrological & nutrient leachingmodelling The value of GIS data for society

Assimilation of remote sensing andenvironmental models

9:00­10:00Welcome, practical information,

aims of the course, JuhaKämäri, Sirkka Tattari

Lecture: An operational largescale hydrological model,

Bertel Vehviläinen

10:00 ­ 10:30 Student poster session/oralpresentation

Lecture: Assimilation ofsatellite based snow, soilmoisture and flood area

information into large­scalehydrological models, Sari

Metsämäki & MarkusHuttunen

10:30 ­ 10:50 Coffee break Coffee break Coffee break Coffee break Coffee break

10:50 ­ 11:45 Student poster session/oralpresentation

Lecture, case study:Remote sensing of waterquality: The developmentand use of waterprocessors available inBEAM, Sampsa Koponen

Student feedback, how they canutilize GIS data and modelling

in their own work?

Lecture, case study: The Use ofRemote Sensing, Drifting Forecastsand GIS Data in Oil Response and

Pollution Monitoring, Kati Tahvonen

Summary; Practical info, FeedbackForm

11:45 ­ 13:00 Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch & coffee Lunch

13:00 ­ 15:00, one break in­between

General lecture I: Remotesensing of soil moisture and

related use of remote sensingdata as input to hydrological

and meteorological,models/assimilation, Wolfgang

Wagner

Lecture, case study: Newmeasurement technology,

modelling and remotesensing in the lake Säkylä

Pyhäjärvi area, TimoHuttula

General lecture III: How GISand remote sensed data is used

in nutrient leaching models –state of art and visions for

future, Andrew Wade

Laboratory visit, Helsinki University ofTechnology, Laboratory of SpaceTechnology, Host: Jaan Praks,

Otakaari 5 A C220

Transportation to the airport

15:00­15:30 Coffee break Coffee break Coffee break

15:30 ­ 17:00...17:30

Lectures: GIS databases andspatial data infrastructure inSYKE, Minna Kallio, EOoperational data provision formodeling purposes, TimoPyhälahti, Discussion

Discussion & Hands­ontraining ­ ImageProcessing using Erdastools, Timo Ikola, T­KartanProduct AB

Discussion & Hands­ontraining: Operational largescale hydrological and waterquality model, MarkusHuttunen

General lecture II: Remotesensing, GIS and  water

quality, Steef Peters

General lecture IV: The use ofmodel, GIS and remote sensed datain the society ­ examples from urban

planning, land use and floodmanagement, Dagmar Haase

General lecture V: Theory of dataassimilation and inversion, Jouni

Pulliainen

Logistics• All lectures are in ”Muuttohaukka”• ”Hands­on training”in ”Kirjekyyhky”, 2nd floor• Sauna & Dinner get together (Mon­Tue) in

”Tervapääsky”, 8th floor• Dinner in hotel HELKA (Wed­Thurs)• Laboratory visit November, 6th, Helsinki

University of Technology, ESPOO

Re­imbursement

•Return ASAP the re­imbursement formcompletely filled out, add all originalreceipts!

•Remember also boardingpass slips

Evaluation of the course

• Feedback Form,must be filled onpaper beforeleaving Helsinki!

• … and I will take itin exchange withthe coursecertificates.

• Welcome all!