Program

Sorry, the program of VI School will be available by June, 2016.

V School took place in September, 2015. Here you can find the full Program (link).

The School is 6 to 10 days course. It elucidates two topics: Satellite Navigation and the Earth Remote Sensing with an accent on its implementaton (GIS).

During the technical tour we visit interesting places like Mision Control Center and Moscow Planetarium.

Please note that the working language of the School remains Russian. Nevertheless, we are ready to provide the exhaustive on-site and text translation in case of attending the School by two or more foreign English-speaking students. Plese let us know about it by July 2016. In other case we could try to find a form of distant access to the School materials for foreign students but a translation will take a time in this case.

Program-at-a-glance

GNSS
ERS

GNSS

Fundamentals of satellite navigation and its practical application

Lectures and practical studies (36 hours)

Global navigation satellite systems (GNSS). History, current status and future.
Concepts of building and structure of global navigation satellite systems. The overview of the GLONASS, GPS, Galileo systems. Usage of the GLONASS system in various sectors of the Russian economy. Development prospects of GNSS. GLONASS 2020 program.

Concepts, technologies and prospects of using global navigation satellite systems.

Navigation solutions
Methods of providing solutions. Assessment of PNT solutions accuracy.
Navigation signals and navigation messages
Frequency bands of navigation signals. The GPS and GLONASS signals performance. User equipment for the GNSS signals.
Differential navigation and differential systems.
The backbone of differential navigation. Wide-area differential systems. Fundamentals of PNT solutions.
High-precision professional satellite equipment and technologies.
Legal basis for implementation of the GLONASS technologies.

Addressing practical tasks by using the GNSS data.
Assessment of PNT solutions accuracy. Transport monitoring and control systems. Usage of satellite navigation in cropping. Usage of satellite systems for navigation.

ERS

Combined usage of the ERS and GNSS data

Lectures and practical studies (36 hours)

ERS systems. Current status and prospects of development.
The current status of space constellation and comparative characteristics of the ERS systems owned by the world leading countries. Avenues and types of cooperation on the ERS systems. Combined usage of the GLONASS and GPS data. Ground ERS segment. Structure and interface. Providing space information to users. Space ERS quality improvement. Tendencies and prospects of development of the Earth remote sensing.

Technologies of processing space information.
Physical fundamentals of the Earth remote sensing. Methods of surveying the Earth from space, bands of surveying, spectral reflectivity of objects, Russian and foreign ERS systems, standard and special-purpose images processing.

Integrated usage of ERS and space navigation data.

Role of global navigation satellite systems in Earth remote sensing.
Geoinformation systems (GIS)
Structural-information arrangement of GIS. Data models in GIS. PNT solutions for GIS data.

The ERS data usage in geoinformation applications.
Monitoring forestry, agricultural lands, flood lands, emergency situations, ecological monitoring, monitoring construction activity and transport infrastructure.

Practical usage of GIS services provided by the Operator of space ERS system.
Data portal of Roscosmos: space information from the Meteor-1 and Electro-L satellites.

Practical lessons on processing and management of the ERS data.
Processing features of current space imageries and possibility to create personal services.