The University of the South Pacific’s - Pacific Centre of Environment and Sustainable Development is hosting a two week long Satellite Remote Sensing workshop which starts today.
Workshop Lead Instructor Dr Bruce Monger says the workshop aims to open up access to billions of dollars’ worth of freely available satellite data that was collected over the past 20 years.
The Director for Pacific Centre of Environment and Sustainable Development, Professor Elisabeth Holland says the greatest gift that the US, through the NASA scientists has given the climate science community is free and open access to the data and images being collected every day by NASA’s fleet of satellites looking down on this planet.
Holland says every citizen of the planet can access the data if they have a computer, the skill and sufficient internet bandwidth.
She says the use of NASA’s satellite data helps us understand how the planet is changing and mastering these tools will allow us to see the Pacific Ocean through new lenses.
Meanwhile, Minister for Agriculture, Rural and Maritime Development and National Disaster Management Inia Seruiratu says forecasting weather, tropical cyclones, and tropical depressions require clear maps of wind speed, wind direction, cloud cover and rainfall and are all important variables that can be mastered with the remote sensing tools provided in this training.
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