NOWPAP/PICES/WESTPAC Joint Training on Remote Sensing Data Analysis

In collaboration with the North Pacific Marine Science Organization (PICES) and IOC Sub-Commission for the Western Pacific (WESTPAC), the Special Monitoring & Coastal Environmental Assessment Regional Activity Centre (CEARAC) of the Northwest Pacific Action Plan (NOWPAP), will conduct an intensive training course at V.I. Il'ichev Pacific Oceanological Institute in Vladivostok, Russia from 8 to 12 October 2011 on the analysis of remote sensing data, with a focus on the Northwest Pacific Ocean.

The course will consist of lectures by experts and hands-on tutorial sessions on analysis of satellite data, aiming at providing opportunities for students, young researchers and coastal managers to obtain useful skills and knowledge to utilize remote sensing data to monitor and assess the coastal and marine environment.

Financial support will be available for limited number of participants and deadline for submission of application is 30 June 2011. This is the third time that NOWPAP jointly organizes such training course with partners in the region since 2007.