Ementorhub

What you'll learn

Learn the principles of radar and how radar data can tell us about the diversity and abundance of organisms.

Explore how to apply radar to provide novel approaches to the study of complex questions in biodiversity research.

Skills you'll gain

Environmental Science

Data Collection

Scientific Visualization

Spatial Data Analysis

Environment

Environmental Regulations

Biology

Physics

Environmental Monitoring

Estimation

Taxonomy

Research

Exploratory Data Analysis

Data Literacy

There are 2 modules in this course

You will explore the origins and evolution of radar from a military technology to a powerful tool with multiple scientific applications, including aeroecology. You will then be introduced to studying global biodiversity trends and learn how to evaluate traditional methods and emerging technologies used by scientists to monitor the natural world. You will then delve deeper to understand how radar science can be used to measure and monitor biodiversity and evaluate its advantages over existing methods of biodiversity measurement. Through real life case studies, you will learn how to interpret data visualisations and radar data output, how to quantify the biomass of species, and you will discover the taxonomic limits of the technology. By the end of the course, you will have explored how this new field of study can be used to transform biological and agricultural research as well as inform environmental regulation and policy.

Week 2 - Advantages and limits of aeroecology in context