Courses and workshops using Bilko teaching materials

University courses

Department of Oceanography, University of Cape Town, South Africa.

BSc (Hons) Ocean and Atmosphere Science
Students use Bilko during practical work as part of the 4th year semester course on Satellite Remote Sensing.

Department of Oceanography and Fisheries, University of Ghana, GHANA.

BSc (Hons) Ocean and Fisheries
Students use Bilko during practical work as part of the 4th year semester course in application of remote sensing and GIS in Oceanography and Fisheries.

University of Lisbon, Portugal.

Degree course in Geophysical Sciences and Physical Engeneering
"Bilko is used in 3rd Year computer practicals in Remote Sensing, which forms part of the degree in Geophysical Sciences and Physical Engineering  at the Faculty of Science of The University of Lisbon, Portugal. The students enjoyed their lesson taken from the Bilko Envisat module, and  found it easy to follow the instructions given."   Dr. Jose C. daSilva, supervisor.

University of Newcastle, UK.

MRes Marine Technology, MSc Tropical Coastal Management
" Students use Bilko Module 7 and Introduction to Bilko. All students rated the Module 7 lessons and introductory material with 5 out of 5 (highest rating). Students also commented that the skills developed were transferable to employment." Dr. Alasdair J. Edwards, course supervisor.

 
Faculty of Oceanography, Russian Hydrometeorological University (RSHU), St. Petersburg, Russian Federation.

The RSHU uses Bilko in a number of its courses (listed below). In the period 2004-2005 also arranged three training seminars in remote sensing using Bilko in collaboration with other St. Petersburg universities. Bilko teaching materials are prepared in Russian and distributed throughout the Russian Federation and NIS (National Institute of Science) countries during 2004-2005.

RSHU courses for 4th and 5th year oceanography students:
'Remote Sensing and Modeling in Oceanography' (new course for 2005), 'Regional Oceanography', and 'Modelling of Natural Processes'. Over 15 oceanography and meteorology students used and are using Bilko for their individual project work during 2004-5.

School of Ocean and Earth Science, University of Southampton, UK.

BSc in Oceanography
Students taking the 3rd year unit 'Oceanography from Space' use Bilko software and lessons from the Envisat Module 'Observing the Ocean from Envisat' for hands-on training in the analysis of satellite data.

MSc in Ocean Remote Sensing
Students on this course use Bilko for practical work in several of their course units. The students and their supervisors also contribute to developing and improving Bilko teaching materials by testing new lessons and software modifications and providing feed-back to the Bilko Project Office.

MSc in Oceanography
Students on this course use Bilko for practical work in the course units 'Introductory Remote Sensing of the Oceans' and 'Visible, IR & Passive Microwave Techniques for Ocean Remote Sensing'.
 
 

Workshops and short courses
2007     2006     2005     2004     2003    

2007

ESA MOST Dragon Programme: 2nd Advanced Training Course
Second Institute of Oceanography, State Oceanic Administration, Hangzhou, P.R.China, 15 - 20 October 2007.
Training course devoted to applications of ESA Earth Observation data and information retrieval for China seas using optical, SAR and radar altimeter data. Hands-on pratical included the use of Bilko to interpret sea surface temperature (SST) data.
More on the course: http://earth.esa.int/dragon/oceantraining2007.html/.

RTR Coral Reef Workshop
Institute of Marine Science (IMS), Zanzibar, Tanzania, 17 - 21 September, 2007.
Training for local scientists in habitat mapping using Bilko and Module 7 lessons, combined with field work to demonstrate the importance of ground-truthing in habitat mapping. Data used included local Landsat TM and ETM+ and Ikonos imagery of the Zanzibar. The workshop was part of the GEF/World Bank funded Coral Reef Targeted Research & Capacity Building for Management (CRTR) project's Remote Sensing Working Group (RSWG) meeting in Zanzibar and was a part of the capacity building activities of the CRTR's East African Centre of Excellence based at IMS. The workshop was led by Professor Peter Mumby (University of Exeter, UK) and Dr Alasdair Edwards (Newcastle University, UK), the main authors of Bilko Module 7, and co-authors of UNESCO's Remote Sensing Handbook for Tropical Coastal Management.

NF-POGO Training Course
Institute of Oceanography, Nha Trang, Vietnam, 25 May - 7 August, 2007.
16 participants from Thailand and Vietnam received training in the application of ocean-colour remote sensing for detecting chlorophyll-a, coloured dissolved organic materials, suspended solids and light attenuation coeffient in coastal water off Binh Thuan Province, Vietnam. Hands-on Bilko practicals included lessons on Sea Surface Temperature and oil spill monitoring.
More on the course: http://mail.vnio.org.vn:8088/

Regional Training Programme on Monitoring and Modelling of Coastal Marine Processes
INOC, Tehran, Iran, 17-21 February 2007.
Training course organised by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) and Regional Organization for the Protection of the Marine Environment (ROPME).

2006

ESA Training Course in Ocean Remote Sensing
Hamburg, Germany, 25 September - 6 October, 2006.
Hands-on practicals included "Sea Surface Temperature from AATSR", Lesson 3 of the Bilko Envisat Module "Observing the Ocean from Envisat".

3rd ENVISAT Summer School on "Earth System Monitoring & Modelling"
ESRIN, Frascati, Italy, 31 July - 11 August, 2006.
The first four practical sessions of European Space Agency (ESA) Summer school for post-graduate students and post-doctoral researchers used lessons 3, 5 and 6 from the Bilko Envisat Module 'Observing the Ocean from Envisat', and a session based around data from the European 'Medspiration' project.   http://envisat.esa.int/envschool/

2005

Methods and Applications of Ocean Colour Remote Sensing in Coastal and Regional Seas
EC Joint Research Centre (JRC), Ispra, Italy, 3-14 October, 2005
18 PhD students and researchers from Estonia, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Romania, Russia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates and United Kingdom received an afternoon's practical training in the use of Bilko for the analysis of ocean colour data from MERIS, SeaWiFS and MODIS. Students used parts of Bilko Envisat Module Lesson 5: The Benguela upwelling system.

ESA TIGER Workshop: Looking after water in Africa
ESRIN, Frascati, Italy, 3-147 October, 2005
As part of this workshop, African hydrologists attending the ESA workshop received 1/2 day hands-on training in the use of Bilko to process synthetic aprerture radar (SAR) data from Envisat-ASAR, using a new teaching module that demonstrates the application of SAR data to crop monitoring.

COspar capacity Building RAbat Workshop on Oceanography (COBRAWO):
Regional workshop for African oceanographers - Ocean remote sensing: a tool for ocean science and operational oceanography
Royal Centre for Remote Sensing, Rabat, Morocco, 19-30 September 2005.

British Council Youth Seminars on Climate Change
Solar Info Centre, Freiburg, Germany, 19-20 July 2005,
Teknisk Institutt, Oslo, Norway, 2-3 November, 2005.
Bilko software was used with model output from the HADCM3 coupled ocean model, and sea surface temperature data from the Advanced Along Track Scanning Radiometer (AATSR) on Envisat to study ocean temperature in the North Atlantic and potential future effects of global climate change.

Baltic Floating University expedition summer seminar
Baltic Sea, summer 2005 A training course in remote sensing applications formed part of this field course for oceanography students and teachers. During the course remote sensing data was tested and combined with oceanographic and hydrochemical data. The Floating University expedition also collected data for processing and further development of training materials.

Remote sensing applications for Marine Meteorology
Russian Hydrometeorolical University (RSHU), St.Petersburg, Russian Federation, 30 March, 2005
This one day training course was part of the WMO Seminar “Computers in meteorological education and training” held for NWS personnel and meteorology instructors, which took place from 28 March to 1 April, in collaboration with WMO Education and Training Department and the RHSU. The course gathered 32 professionals from 13 countries.

2004

ESA-MOST Advanced Training Course in Ocean Remote Sensing
Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China, 25-30 October 2004.
This training course for researchers from Chine and South East Asia used Bilko software and ' Envisat Lesson 2: Internal Waves' as part of hands-on exercises in the apllication of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery to oceanography. An additional image from the South China Seas was included in the lesson in preparation for this course. It is now part of the lesson that may be downloaded from the registered user area of the Bilko website.

WIOMSA training course in satellite altimetry
Broglio Space Center, Malindi, Kenya, 6-17 September, 2004.
The course, organised by the Western Indian Ocean Marine Science Association (WIOMSA), was attended by environmental managers and oceanographers from Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Mozambique and Tanzania. The workshop used the Lesson 6: Ocean Eddies from the Bilko Envisat Module, and also a custom made lesson combining satellite altimetry images with local tide gauge measurements.

>2nd ENVISAT Summer School on "Earth System Monitoring & Modelling"
ESRIN, Frascati, Italy, 16-26 August, 2004.
The European Space Agency (ESA) Summer school for post-graduate students and post-doctoral researchers used selected lessons from the Bilko Envisat Module 'Observing the Ocean from Envisat'. Students provided valuable feed-back that lead to improvements in both software and lessons.

Training Seminar in Remote Sensing
Hydrometeorological University (RSHU) Baltic Sea Field Course, 11-13 August, 2004.
During research activities in the Baltic Sea students and post-graduate students from different countries studied practical applications of informatics-analytical methods and processing of the oceanography data, application of geoinformatiion systems in geo-ecology, and practical applications of remote sensing methods in oceanography.

Satellite Oceanography Summer School
Ensenada Center for Higher Education Scientific Research (CICESE), Ensenada, Mexico, 8-28 August, 2004.

Summer Session Programme 2004 (SSP04) of the International Space University
Hosts: University of South Australia, Adelaide University and Flinders University.
The first workshop, mandatory for all 114 SSP04 participants, covered topics on Fundamentals of Image Processing, from very basic concepts to more advanced ones. The second workshop was instead organised only for the Satellite Applications Department students. This focused on Applied Remote Sensing and Image Interpretation. "All students found Bilko extremely useful and user-friendly, allowing them to appreciate hands-on remote sensing data processing and image interpretation aspects."
Organiser: Giuseppe Ottavianelli, Space Research Centre, Cranfield University.

2003

Training course in the application of remote sensing to fishing
Polar Fishing Institute, Murmansk, Russian Federation, 15-18 October 2003.
This course, organised in co-operation with the Russian State Hydrometeorological University (RSHU) and gathered 17 professionals from 7 Russian institutions.