Free Online course: Monitoring the Oceans from Space

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A free online course, based on five weeks is being offered by Future learn. Course is comprised of five weeks, requires three hours a week. This course is based upon lectures and discussion from well renowned scientist and presented by physicist, oceanographer and broadcaster Dr. Helen Czerski from University College London, remote sensing specialist Dr. Hayley Evers-King from the Plymouth Marine Laboratory, and the lead educator Dr. Mark Higgins from EUMETSAT. This free course is produced in the support of Copernicus program and run by EUMETSAT. 
 This course is focused on satellite remote sensing data, how to download, explore and use data from different satellite datasets, specifically Sentinel-3, Sentinel-6 and Jason-3 ocean monitoring satellites and the contributing missions providing marine data for Copernicus – such as Metop and Meteosat,  for Earth Observation. 
Lead Educator Dr Mark Higgins explaining Sea Level Rise ocean circulation

 Different kind of animations, videos and assimilations systems are presented in this course for the modelling of Ice cover, ocean surface temperature, ocean altimetry, El-Nino, El-Nino southern oscillation and many more. Questions and discussion by Dr. Helen Czerski makes this course more interesting and informative. 
Dr Pierre Yves Le Traon is explaining large scale ocean circulation

This course is for the people who are interesting in oceanography and environmental sciences by using satellite datasets. Freely available at Future Learn. Though course if free but a payment of $94 is required to get a certificate. Suppliments are availabe are here.

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