Satellite data to monitor regional environmental change

The Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI), in partnership with National Geographic, offers a free, self-paced, certificate course for students and researchers in Latin America and the Caribbean interested in using satellite data to monitor environmental changes in the region.

This course aims to strengthen participants’ technical skills in processing and interpreting satellite images to identify spatial and temporal changes in ecosystems, climate, and human aspects such as health. These skills will enable the generation of products relevant to land-use planning, such as the detection of vulnerable areas, using open-access tools such as Google Earth Engine.

Participation conditions

Modalidad: Virtual, autogestionado


Duración sugerida: 5 semanas – 4h semanales

Certificado gratuito al finalizar

IDIOMA: El curso está disponible en español y en inglés.

¿A quién va dirigido?

Estudiantes e investigadores de América Latina y el Caribe interesados en monitorear el cambio ambiental con datos satelitales y herramientas abiertas como Google Earth Engine.

¿Qué aprenderás? Visualización y procesamiento de imágenes  Análisis de series de tiempo Cálculos con datos vectoriales Cambios en cobertura del suelo Generación de mapas de cambio antes/después Casos reales sobre deforestación, contaminación, eventos extremos y salud pública.

Participants will be part of a study with IRB approval # 79698 from Stanford University and will be required to fill out a pre-course and a post-course survey. Participants will have 5 weeks to complete the course and will receive a certificate of approval if they successfully complete the final test. Six months after the conclusion of the course, participants will be asked to complete a final follow-up survey to understand longer-term course impacts. Please fill out the pre-course survey in the following link https://stanforduniversity.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0ugw9jqSxo4vJqe

Registration

To receive instructions for course registration, please enter your email address in the following link https://stanforduniversity.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_78UWJba1TeFMOpM. It is a link different from the survey so that responses cannot be linked.

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