. . "201800303" . "WREM_004" . "7"^^ . "196"^^ . "10"^^ . "2023-07-06T22:00:00Z"^^ . "distance education" . "f2f" . "The course starts with a set of showcases from current research to illustrate the significance of the topic, and to highlight the role of climate change and human interactions and interventions. The course will provide a more in-depth understanding of the processes affecting surface waters, where it is interleaved with (Jupyter notebook) exercises, allowing students to link theory to more practical applications.\n\nIn week 7, student will perform a graded notebook exercise. Students will adapt a template Jupyter notebook exercise to process a dataset or modelling result related to surface water, and perform several experiments to answer questions related to the dataset and scientific problem.\n\nThe field excursion to the river Dinkel serves to illustrate how theory on discharge links to practical experiments, and to show the students the contrast between natural river courses versus man-made waterways.\n\nWeeks 8 and 9 are dedicated to a challenge, where groups of students will develop a small business case where they develop a case on how remote sensing data and/or modelling can be used to serve a customer need. The development of the business case and its pitching in front of a simulated set of entrepreneurs aims to make students learn about different stakeholder perspectives (users, scientist, inverstor), and link the material from the course to a non-academic setting. The contact hours will serve to explain the structure and steps to come to a business case."@en . . . . . . . "A necessary condition is to have attended the WREM courses Q2.1 & Q2.2.M-GEO WREM students, 2nd year M-GEO/M-SE students and short course participants "@en . . . "4"^^ . "4" . "2B" . . . . . . . . "2023-04-23T22:00:00Z"^^ . "Significance\n\nSurface waters such as lakes and rivers play a key role in water management and ecosystems in many countries. On the one hand, they offer direct access to water needed for agriculture, domestic uses, and industry. On the other hand, surface waters act as the interface between groundwater and the atmosphere, through processes such as evapotranspiration, runoff, and aquifer recharge.\n\nAt a geopolitical level, unsustainable anthropogenic use of surface water have a serious potential for conflicts. Many rivers cross international boundaries and upstream usage therefore can create shortages and pollution downstream.\n\nFurthermore, in light of climate change, it is expected that the water cycle will intensify at a global scale (“dry gets drier and wet gets wetter”) but there is still uncertainty on how this will manifests itself at a local and regional level. It is imaginable that some areas see little change in their climatic regime, while others will experience longer droughts more intense floodings and/or changes in the rain seasons.\n\nAims\n\nThis course aims to provide students with a foundation to (1) understand the geophysical processes which affect surface water changes in lakes and rivers, (2) explore various observation methods from space and in situ, and (3) explore ways of adding value to existing datasets. As such, the course will provide students with a skill-set allowing them to tackle surface water problems in various regions of the world, and make them aware of climatic and human factors which are modulating the water cycle with a dedicated focus on lakes and rivers.\n\nThe course offers content which is relevant to the United Nations sustainable development goals (SDG) 6 (Clean water and Sanitation). It furthermore has relevance to SDG 2 (Zero Hunger) through the water use issues of crops, and SDG 11 (Sustainable cities and communities) through water availability for urban areas."@en . "Observing and modelling of surface water in a changing world"@en . . "Observing and modelling of surface water in a changing world"@en . "Observing and modelling of surface water in a changing world"@en . . "201800275" . "WREM_002" . "7"^^ . "196"^^ . "10"^^ . "2023-02-02T23:00:00Z"^^ . "f2f" . "The course lasts for 10 weeks, with a balance time between Q2.1 (Physical Processes, this course) and Q2.2 (Earth Observations, sibling course).\nLectures, usually during mornings, explain the physical process in the radiation, energy and water balance, its components and the application examples to Water Productivity and Droughts. Lectures are both in class and recorded.\nThe practice is both supervised and unsupervised, although the responsible staff is always available for consultation. Practical style are chosen to best suit the process under study: exercises using standard tools (Excel sheets, calculations) to grasp the main (1D) “vertical” processes. The extension to 2-3D is done in Q2.2 in a natural conjunction along the course.\nThe blending between the theory and the practical is done through the use of Jupyter NoteBooks (JNB) where complementary explanations and exercising are together. Python is slowly introduced in this routinely work that is part of the Centre of Expertise in Big Geodata Science (CRIB) at ITC.\nThe course counts on Question Hour, practice quizzes and exploration in Field measurement and devices from the new LILA experimental site of the UT."@en . . . . . . . "Core ITC (Q1). Physics and math background. ,To have completed the Core Course of ITC (Quartile 1).\nThe strongly advised conditions are good skills in physics and math, high marks in the Remote Sensing related topics of the Core (Q1), have previous exposure to hydrology and activities in the Water Sector."@en . . . . . . . . . . "13"^^ . "2" . "1B" . . . . . . . . . "2022-11-13T23:00:00Z"^^ . "The interrelated Water and Energy cycle ultimate control all water presence and climatic processes on Earth, and consequently, the life of all beings and its quality. To understand those cycles is foundational to any conservative and sustainable action we, as professionals, may attempt in our environment. This course digs into the most critical and delicate balance of nature. \n\nTo explain the importance of the components of the water and energy cycle, the course envisages two end practical examples: the calculation of Water Productivity (Crop per Drop) and the evaluation of droughts. Water Productivity estimates is obtained after the studies of the radiation balance and evapotranspiration and droughts is the end product of the previous learnings and the addition of the precipitation, soil moisture and groundwater concepts. Along the course physical processes and their Remote Sensing retrievals are fully integrated.\n\nIt is to note that this Q2.1 is designed being supplementary to the Q2.2, in a dual treatment manner, wherein Q2.1 focuses on the understanding of Physical Processes and Q2.2 on Earth Observation of the Water and Energy Cycles of Earth System."@en . "Hydrological and Environmental Cycles"@en . . "Hydrological and Environmental Cycles"@en . "Hydrological and Environmental Cycles"@en . . "201800285" . "WREM_001" . "7"^^ . "196"^^ . "10"^^ . "2023-02-02T23:00:00Z"^^ . "f2f" . "The course lasts for 10 weeks with 2 days a week, and the Q2.1 (Physical Processes) and Q2.2 (Earth Observations) of water and energy cycles in the Earth system are designed as such to be closely complementary to each other. The course is designed for a continuous flow and the student is mostly unaware of this partition, adding to the robustness of the teaching.\n\nIn this way, the 10 weeks are divided in topics covering Water and Energy Balance components, each of which could last between 1 to 2 weeks depending on the complexity. Each topic ends up with a Question Hour direct to the involved staff. A number of quizzes are designed along the way as formative assessments, able to correct misalignments in the studies.\n\nSome topics have field trips to the novel LILA site at the campus in the University of Twente, where students practice on equipment and measuring devices."@en . . . . . "Core ITC (Q1). Physics and math background. ,knowledge of geometry, goniometry, integration, differentiation"@en . . . . . . . . . . "13"^^ . "2" . "1B" . . . . . . "2022-11-13T23:00:00Z"^^ . "Water and energy are fundamental for life on Earth, their variations, trends, and extremes are sources for drought extremes, heat waves, heavy rains, floods, and intensive storms that are increasingly threatening our society to cause havoc as the climate changes. Better observations and analysis of these phenomena will help improve our ability to understand their physical processes (as introduced in Q2.1) and to model and predict them. Earth Observation technology is a unique tool to provide a global understanding of essential water and energy variables and monitor their evolution from global to basin scales. In this course, you will learn the physical principles of how electromagnetic signals were applied to monitor these essential variables by spaceborne sensors, and learn tools and methods to collect, process, and visualize Earth observation data of surface solar radiation, evapotranspiration, precipitation, soil moisture, and terrestrial water storage. Furthermore, students will learn how to retrieve the essential water/climate variable – soil moisture from Earth observation data, applying the radiative transfer theory."@en . "Earth Observation of Water Resources"@en . . "Earth Observation of Water Resources"@en . "Earth Observation of Water Resources"@en . . "201800303" . "WREM_003" . "7"^^ . "196"^^ . "10"^^ . "2023-04-20T22:00:00Z"^^ . "distance education" . "f2f" . "The course SHADES-OF-BLUE will be offered as part of the M-GEO programme and will therefore be delivered in a hybrid setup (face-to-face and online) in the teaching rooms of the University of Twente. The lectures will be recorded and shared with the students. During the lectures, students are exposed to new concepts followed by hands-on practical exercises. A field excursion is organized to provide the students with practical skills to collect in-situ data for calibration and validation purposes. The students are requested to be physically present during the field excursion to improve their learning gain.\n\nDuring the assignment, the students will be coached while they are working on developing the specific application of the assignment. The students are requested to work in groups and prepare a case study from the selected challenge and provide the details of the application developed as well as the results obtained in a report supported by a poster presentation.\n\n \n\nThe main sub-courses forming this course (namely, Ocean-climate nexus, Coastal systems and sea-level rise, Water pollution and Blue productivity) with their corresponding challenges will also be offered as distance education courses."@en . . . . . . "M-GEO core & preferably WREM specialization track courses from Quartile 2. ,Basic knowledge in remote sensing and spatial data analysis\nBackground in physics, biology, earth sciences and/or applied mathematics\nAffinity of working with EO data and natural resources"@en . . . . . . . . . "4"^^ . "3" . "2A" . . "2023-02-05T23:00:00Z"^^ . "This teaching course SHADES-OF-BLUE aims at providing the students with the competence to use Earth Observation (EO) data and products to leverage the management of coastal and inland aquatic resources and policymaking.\n\nThe main objective is to deepen and broaden the knowledge and practical skills of students in using EO products and applications for the integrated management of aquatic resources in deltas. The course includes technical skills and know-how about EO data, products, and applications and, more importantly, global phenomena related to ocean-land-atmosphere interactions. EO products and applications are fundamental components of the planned course and form the backbone of the teaching from the start to the end. Therefore, the course will not only focus on the more generic building stones of remote sensing of aquatic resources but also on the wider scope of applications that addresses the water-atmosphere-land nexus with a deeper analysis and evaluation phase. During this course, the students will acquire competencies needed to address the national (Dutch Research Agenda, routes nr. 1, 4, 9, 13, 23, and 25) and the international research agenda (UN’s Sustainable Development Goals nr. 6, 13, 14, 15)."@en . "SHADES-OF-BLUE: Earth Observation of coastal and inland waters"@en . . "SHADES-OF-BLUE: Earth Observation of coastal and inland waters"@en . "SHADES-OF-BLUE: Earth Observation of coastal and inland waters"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "The Master’s Programme Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (M-GEO) is a two-year academic curriculum at MSc level, taught fully in English, dedicated to understanding the earth’s systems from a geographic and spatial perspective. The field of Geo-information Science and Earth Observation has, in recent years, witnessed fast scientific and technological developments. As a result, geographic information has become a vital asset to society and part of our daily life. The ubiquitous production and availability of spatial data require cloud computing and new technology to turn the increasing volume of ‘big data’ to good use. The growing range of global challenges, from climate change and resource depletion to environmental pollution and pandemic diseases, that our society and in particular the more vulnerable populations on our planet are facing, increases the demand for academic professionals who have the ability, attitudes and skills to design solutions that are sustainable, transdisciplinary and innovative with positive societal impacts. Our education focuses on addressing these global problems by means of advanced geo-information and earth observation applications."@en . "Master’s Programme Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (M-GEO)"@en . . "Master’s Programme Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (M-GEO)"@en . . . "Specialisation" . "Water Resources and Environmental Management"@en .