In this video, Robbie Mallett explains how they decide where it is safe to work on the floe, as well as how to deter polar bears away from the study areas, and Dr Michel Tsamados and other members of the MOSAiC team, describe how instruments are set up on the ice, to take in situ measurements.
Featured Educators:
Robbie Mallett
Anika Happe
Dr Michel Tsamados
Sam Cornish
Lisa Craw
Carolynn Harris
An in depth Audio lecture with Dr Anna Maria Trofaier on Synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) imagery:
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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.
An in depth Audio lecture with Dr Anna Maria Trofaier on Synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) imagery:
Topic 2e Part 2: Setting Up Base and Deploying Instruments on the Ice
In this video, Robbie Mallett explains how they decide where it is safe to work on the floe, as well as how to deter polar bears away from the study areas, and Dr Michel Tsamados and other members of the MOSAiC team, describe how instruments are set up on the ice, to take in situ measurements.
Featured Educators:
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:
Quizzes and comments
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.
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