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<div class="moz-forward-container">European Space Agency (ESA)
massive open online course
(MOOC): Monitoring Climate from Space<br>
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<div class="" style="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1429735274062_2706">5
weeks, 3 hr per week - Beginning 8 June 2015<br>
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<div class="" style="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1429735274062_2745">ESAâs
first MOOC, Monitoring Climate from Space, is open now
for learners to sign up for, with teaching set to begin on 8th
June 2015. Over
five weeks, a selection of the worldâs foremost scientists
will guide learners
through the role of satellite data in supporting decisions
relating to climate
change and sustainable development.</div>
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<div class="" style="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1429735274062_2751">Designed
for current and future policy makers, educators and
anyone communicating about climate change, the course will aim
to give learners
a robust understanding of the datasets that should inform
their work. As
awareness continues to grow of the threat that climate change
presents to our
planet, the course will also appeal to a wider public
interested in examining
environmental elements â such as ice thickness, aerosol, sea
level and soil
moisture â in greater detail.</div>
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<div class="" style="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1429735274062_2778">This
course is designed for people who want to learn more
about Earth observation, climate change and monitoring climate
from space. The
course can also help decision makers, policy makers, educators
and communicators,
to gain a better insight into how satellite data can help them
assess the state
of our climate and its changes, in order to support climate
science, and
adaptation and mitigation decisions.</div>
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<div class="" style="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1429735274062_2777">In
this free online course, you will join leading experts and
scientists from ESA and key European research centres, to
explore the science
that underpins Earth observation.</div>
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<div class="" style="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1429735274062_2939">We
will look at recent and current satellite missions that
are providing an archive of essential data; and find out how
this data is used
in local and international policy and planning.</div>
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<div class="" style="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1429735274062_2691">The
course consists of five themed weeks:</div>
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<div class="" style="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1429735274062_2689">Week
1 - Observing Climate Change from Space</div>
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<div class="" style="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1429735274062_2692">What
is Earth observation? How do we observe the Earth with
satellites? And what role does Earth observation play in
climate policy and
planning?</div>
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<div class="" style="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1429735274062_2694">Weeks
2 & 3 - Earth Observation Techniques and
Technology</div>
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<div class="" style="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1429735274062_2695">How
do we use different types of mission, instrumentation
and data to study changes to our atmosphere, land, oceans and
ice?</div>
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<div class="" style="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1429735274062_2696">Week
4 - Earth Observation in Action</div>
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<div class="" style="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1429735274062_2697">How
does Earth observation help us set policy; plan for
climate risk, resilience and adaptation; and manage resources
and biodiversity?</div>
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<div class="" style="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1429735274062_2933">Week
5 - Managing Earth Observation Data</div>
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<div class="" style="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1429735274062_2774">How
do we make sense of the large amount of data produced by
Earth observation? Can crowdsourcing and citizen science play
a role in
developing climate change models?</div>
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id="yui_3_16_0_1_1429735274062_2914">https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/climate-from-space</a></div>
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