Introduction to active and passive microwave remote sensing SAR Interferometry, raw data processing, registration, coherence, phase unwrapping, geo-coding; differential SAR interferometry,permanent scatter interferometry, radar polarimetry, data processing and image classification, advanced active and passive systems, rainfall measuring radar, scatterometer, altimeter, active microwave data for DEM generation, change mapping in geo-sciences, oil spill, soil moisture, passive microwave data for global soil moisture,snow cover mapping, global temperature monitoring, case studies.

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