Course Round Up
We hope you have enjoyed this course and gained an insight into the cryosphere.
Remember this course is open and continuously available, so please feel free to use it as an on-going reference and return to it at anytime.
You may also find our course on Monitoring the Greenland Ice Sheet of interest, and you can access it here.
You can browse other courses on Earth Observation from Imperative Space here.
For more information about ESA’s activities in monitoring the cryosphere you can visit the ESA CCI glaciers project or read more about the wider work of the ESA Climate Office here.
Please look out for further updates from us on opportunities to engage with some of the experts in this course in the coming weeks.
Course topics
The core videos of this course are labelled as topic videos.
We have also provided a range of optional further reading, links, and additional resources to help consolidate your learning. Here is a summary of what is available:
Topic links and resources
In each topic, once you have watched the video and read the accompanying text, you will find the following information:
- Optional Further Reading: These are external links to further reading.
- Featured Images and Animations: Below the text on each video page, you’ll find the featured images and featured animations.
- Interactives: On the 'Interactives' tab on relevent topic pages, you will find a satellite tracking application showing the current location of the satellites, a data viewer from the ESA WEkEO platform, as well as a data viewer, specially created for this course, allowing you to explore a selection of data relevant to the themes and topics in this course. (Please note that due to maintenance, the data viewer is currently unavailable).
Quizzes and comments
- Quizzes: At the end of each week there will be a quizz consisting of around five questions. These will help you consolidate your understanding of new topics, but are not scored. The feedback given with each answer also will also provide you with important information.
Weekly interactive exercises
At the end of each week, we have included a guided exercise, using interactive apps available on other websites, to help you become more familiar with looking at and working with EO datasets. You will be guided through the process of searching for, comparing and drawing conclusions from data relevant to some of the topics covered in that week.
