Remote sensing of tectonic and volcanic deformation

1 General introduction to space geodesy (3h course) : shape of the Earth, gravity field, geoid, satellite orbits, geodetic techniques.
2 InSAR (3h course + 3h practical) : radar image formation, satellite acquisition modes, interferometry, atmospheric artifacts, applications to volcanic and tectonic deformation, processing of a real dataset.
3 GNSS (3h course + 3h practical) : basic principles, ionospheric and atmospheric corrections, reference frame, applications to seismic cycle, application to a real dataset.
4 Optical imagery (1h course + 2h practical) : optical image geometry, bundle adjustment, stereophotogrammetry, sub-pixel correlation, application to a real dataset.
5 Modeling (1h course + 2h practical) : basic principles of inverse problem theory, seismic slip inversion, volcano deformation, application to a real dataset.
6 Oral presentations (4h TD) : synthesis of (at least) 2 scientific articles per group.

* Basic understanding of theoretical and practical aspects of modern satellite geodetic techniques.
* Ability to handle pre-processed satellite data, and to perform simple analytic procedures.
* Ability to synthetize results for a scientific audience (motivation of the study, context / state of the art, observations, models, conclusions, perspectives).

None, but a basic knowledge of Mathematical and Computational tools for Earth Science is preferable.