Introduction The Institute for Electromagnetic Sensing of Environment of the Italian National Research Council (IREA-CNR), the Naples Department of the Italian National Institute for Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV-Osservatorio Vesuviano) and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) organize a short course on the InSAR (Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar) technique, focused on the use of the ROI_PAC (Repeat Orbit Interferometry PACkage) software. ROI_PAC is a powerful tool developed at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena (USA), freely available to the community and now supporting data processing from ERS1/2, ENVISAT, JERS, Radarsat, ALOS-PALSAR and Seasat satellites and in the near future also TerraSAR-X and COSMO/SkyMed data. ROI_PAC was released for the first time in 2000 and about 30 groups in the academic and research community currently use it worldwide. More information on ROI_PAC can be found on ROI_PAC WIKI site. The course is addressed to Geoscientists and students working in the field of ground deformation measurements in volcanic and seismogenic areas which are new - or roughly new - to the field of SAR Interferometry. The aim of the course is, therefore, to provide participants with the operational bases for the use of ROI_PAC.
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Date and Location of the course The course will be held from September 14th to 17th, 2009 in Naples (Italy), at the PICO (Palazzo dell’Innovazione e della COnoscenza) building in Via Terracina, 230 (phone +39-081-230.16.14/12 www.codexcampania.it - This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it ). General information The official language of the course is English. No participation fees will be charged, but no financial contributions are available to support participation to the course: participants are expected to finance their own travel and accommodation expenses. The course is open to all the interested Geoscientists and Ph. D. students in Geoscience. A maximum number of 20 highly motivated participants will be admitted. Interested participants are required to submit their Curriculum Vitae (CV) and a short motivation letter, via a web form at http://roi_pac.irea.cnr.it The deadline for the application form submission is June 15th, 2009 (strict deadline). Applications will be considered only if the form is duly filled-in and submitted in time. The list of accepted participants will be released on July 15th, 2009.
Technical requirements Participants are expected to have at least a basic knowledge of the Linux OS, with basic use of the shell environment. They must bring their own laptops with all the needed software tools (namely ROI_PAC, MDX and GMT) ready to be installed: laptops can be either Linux or Mac OS X; ROI_PAC does not support Windows Systems. Laptops should have at least 2 GB of RAM installed in order to increase processing performances of real data. ROI_PAC can be requested for free (no commercial use) on the Open Channel Foundation web site at http://www.openchannelsoftware.com/projects/ROI_PAC For viewing InSAR results, participants are also asked to download the MDX tool from https://download.jpl.nasa.gov/ops/request/index.cfm (free of charge for no commercial use). More info available at http://www.roipac.org/Viewing_results The Generic Mapping Tools (GMT) installation is also required for data rendering purposes: GMT can be freely downloaded at http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu/ or from the repositories of many Linux distributions (e.g. Fedora, Ubuntu, etc.) GMT for Mac users is available on Fink http://www.finkproject.org/ or MacPorts http://www.macports.org/index.php Please note that ROI_PAC and MDX downloads must be preventively authorized, so it may take some time for getting the authorization to download the softwares. Please submit your requests for software download directly to the software distributors well in advance of the course dates.
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