Regional Training Workshop 4

 Feature Extraction from Satellite Imagery

Location
Venue	Cayman Islands
Duration	3 days (May 21 - 23, 2012)
Target Group	Technical officers with responsibility for field data collection, hazard monitoring, emergency response, contingency, and risk mitigation
Workshop facilitators	Jacob Opadeyi: jopadeyi@hotmail.com Gabrielle Thongs:gthongs@gmail.com and Melanie Harris
Objectives	Participants will be introduced to basic principles of remote sensing, image processing, and feature extraction methods from remotely sensed data as tools for the building databases of hazard and vulnerability information
Content	Concepts of electromagnetic radiation and their interactions with surfaces Remote sensing systems and sensors Image processing techniques Georeferencing and mosaicing of imageries Feature Extraction with on-screen digitizing Feature Extraction with Semi-automated digitizing Accuracy assessment