2023 Short Courses: GMT and GMTSAR Accepting Applications

[Melissa Weber]

Dear EarthScope Community,

We are excited to announce two new 2023 EarthScope community learning opportunities: The Generic Mapping Tool (GMT) for Geodesy short course, and the InSAR Processing and Theory with GMTSAR short course.  

Both courses will be open to graduate and undergraduate students in earth science, as well as early career geoscientists, university, government, or industry. 

The GMT course runs June 26-29, 2023, and will cover the use of GMT 6 in geodesy using UNIX shell scripting. Lectures and exercises will be given to teach the basic conventions of using GMT, such as plotting symbols, vectors (points, lines, polygons), and grids (elevation, shading, radar image). It will cover all the prerequisite material for the InSAR processing and theory with GMTSAR short course. We will also offer an introduction to the Python and Julia wrappers for GMT.

The GMTSAR course runs July 25-29, 2023, and will cover the theory and application of repeat-pass synthetic aperture radar interferometry (InSAR) using the software GMTSAR. Lectures and exercises will be given to teach the basic theoretical aspects of InSAR. Labs will include software installation, running test data sets for standard interferogram formation, as well as more advanced processing for time series with Sentinel-1A TOPS-mode data. Those unfamiliar with the software package GMT are encouraged to also attend the Generic Mapping Tools (GMT) for Geodesy short course. Several of the instructors will be using Jupyter notebooks for the high-level interface. 

Learn more about these and other upcoming offerings via our website at https://www.earthscope.org/education/skill-building-learning/short-courses/.

Best Wishes,

	Melissa Weber (she, her, they)
	Community Engagement Coordinator

Email: meliss...@earthscope.org

Voice: 303-381-7562