University of Twente
- Start Date: 13 Dec, 2021
- 3 weeks
- Study Content: Videos
Explore cutting-edge technology and learn how to analyse satellite climate data to help measure and mitigate climate change.
Course Fee: Free
Certificate Cost: See Fees and Eligibility
Course Description
This course is made available through the eLearnAfrica and FutureLearn partnership.
Explore the tools that can help with climate change solutions
To accurately study climate change, assess its risks, and mitigate the impact, we need systematic observations of the climate.
There are 54 essential variables used to measure climate change. These essential climate variables (ECVs) are crucial in helping to provide evidence for climate change and implement adaptation methods.
On this three-week course, you’ll explore the state-of-the-art technology used in the Climate Change Initiative programme (CCI) of the European Space Agency, and how satellite data is used to measure climate change.
Through interactive exercises, you’ll be trained to understand climate change and analyse satellite climate data using the CATE (Climate Analysis Toolbox) of the Climate Change Initiative Programme.
With these tools, you’ll find essential climate variables that are indicators of the state and change of the climate and a specific process in the atmosphere-Earth system.
Understand the components of the climate system
You’ll explore many components of the climate system: the water, energy and carbon cycles, cryosphere and land.
This will help you understand the physical processes of climate change from different perspectives.
With this knowledge, you’ll learn how to create and communicate maps, times series, and trends of essential climate variables. You’ll also be able to evaluate the results and provide judgments of the significance of the analysis.
Learn from the experts at the University of Twente
You’ll be guided through articles and videos by world-class scientists on this course led by the specialists at the ITC faculty at the University of Twente.
With a 70-year track record in knowledge transfer in the field of Earth observation, ITC was awarded by the European Space Agency to create this interactive online course.
This course is designed for anyone studying, researching, or interested in climate change and satellite climate data.
You will need to have access to a computer to access the websites used in this course.
Certificate cost may vary. You will be redirected to the host page for cost and payment options.
University of Twente
The grand challenges the world will be facing during the coming decades will undoubtedly change the global university landscape too. Today’s students are tomorrow’s global citizens, professionals who will contribute to finding solutions for major social issues in fields like healthcare, governance, energy and the environment. As a young and entrepreneurial university in the Netherlands, the University of Twente prepares young people for this future. It does so by offering cutting-edge, appealing and future-proof education. By being a global player in technology and social research. And by creating a thriving campus hot-spot, as an ecosystem for hundreds of spinoff companies
‘High tech, human touch’ implies that the university is continuously on the look-out for unexpected combinations of research and education, always with a view to the needs of society. Twente therefore cooperates closely with large companies, SMEs, hospitals and government organisations, throughout our own region and elsewhere.
Its unique campus in the Twente region currently welcomes 9,500 students, and employs over 3,000 scientists and professional support staff.
This institution is available on eLearnAfrica through partnership with FutureLearn.
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