Objectives

The objectives of the trainings course are to provide participants with an overview of inversion methods and models, to prepare bio-optical models and training data sets for inversion methods, and to teach participants how to use various inversion techniques.

The course is intended for scientists or advanced graduate students working with ocean-colour data in coastal waters. Participants should have a strong mathematical background as well as experience in programming. Course will be held in English

Lecturers:

Dr. Stewart Bernard, CSIR - NRE, Ecosystems Earth Observation, South Africa

Dr. Roland Doerffer, GKSS, Institute for Coastal Research, Germany

Dr. Mark Dowell, European Joint Research Center, Italy

Prof. Zhongping Lee, Mississippi State University, USA

Dr. Harald Krawczyk, DLR, Germany

Sponsors

The trainings course is part of the IOCCG capacity building program. It is sponsored by:

GKSS summer school programme in coastal research

Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, Institute of Environmental Science

Gesellschaft zur Förderung des GKSS Forschungszentrums e.V.