Helpful Tutorials

• NASA Data Active Archive Center: Alaska Satellite Facility SAR Tutorials

• Free and open SAR Semester including lecture materials, readings, labs, etc.

• UNAVCO Short Courses focused on the latest geodetic techniques, tools and data streams

• Natural Resources Canada tutorial: Microwave Remote Sensing Basics

• What is SAR? SAR Overview

• ARSET

  • Introduction to Synthetic Aperture Radar

  • Radar Remote Sensing for Land, Water, & Disaster Applications

  • SAR for Landcover Applications

  • SAR for Disasters and Hydrological Applications

  • Forest Mapping and Monitoring with SAR data

  • Agricultural Crop Classification with Synthetic Aperture Radar and Optical Remote Sensing (2021, 2023)

NASA Capacity Building Programs

• DEVELOP – Public-access reports on feasibility studies for integrating SAR into real-world decision support systems and 3-min videos:

  • Rapid Damage Validation post natural disasters

  • Near-real-time active-fire and post-burn support to fire responders

  • Fire hotspots and swamp susceptibility

  • Drought and insect-related dieback

  • Human impacts on natural and surface deformation in Black Rock Playa, Nevada

  • Flood extent mapping post-coastal storm disasters

  • Flood vulnerability in New Orleans

  • Flood preparedness in coastal communities

  • Wetland Inundation Mapping

  • Wetland change mapping

  • Wetland habitat mapping

  • Wetland hydroperiod mapping

  • Wild rice crop monitoring

  • SAR-enhanced crop classification (Study 1 and Study 2)

  • Vegetation water use in the Panama Canal watershed

• SERVIR

  • SERVIR Forest Monitoring SAR Handbook

  • One-Pagers:

    • SAR Data Access and Availability
    • SAR Data Pre-Processing
    • SAR Backscatter and Forest Type
    • SAR to estimate Forest Stand Height
    • SAR Vegetation Indices

  • 5-min Movie: SAR explained