The new 2020 course has many modules and has updated course content to optimize online learning.
Beaver Works Summer Institute Remote Sensing program will offer students the opportunity to explore the exciting intersection of data science and disaster response. The program consists of two components: (1) online course from January to May 2020, open to all interested and committed students; and (2) a four-week virtual summer program. During the course, the students will learn to understand the basics of Python, Git, GIS, machine learning, and image processing through a series of online teaching modules. Students will explore real world datasets featuring disaster imagery from both satellites and aerial platforms. Students in this course will develop experience in an area of data science that is poised to play a critical role in understanding our world.
Jeffrey Liu, Ph.D.
Rene Andres Garcia-Franceschini
Omkar Bhalerao
Pratyush Das
Andrew Mascillaro
Anne Marie Stupinski
| Week | Day | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Week 1 | July 6 | Welcome to Beaver Works Summer Institute; Remote Sensing Course Overview |
| July 7 | Introduction to Python and Pandas | |
| July 8 | Guest Seminar Day: Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief Group at MIT Lincoln Lab | |
| July 9 | Intro to Geospatial Information Systems in Python Guest: Chad Council, MIT LL | |
| July 10 | GIS and Networks in Python | |
| Week 2 | July 13 | Advanced GIS: Raster and Vector Data Sources |
| July 14 | Advanced GIS: Intro to Imagery | |
| July 15 | FEMA Guest Lecture Day | |
| July 16 | Image Processing continued, intro to satellite imagery Guest: Sean Anklam, MIT LL | |
| July 17 | Satellite Imagery Continued | |
| Week 3 | July 20 | Civil Air Patrol and Aerial Imagery Guests: Dave Strohschein, MIT LL, Andrew Weinert, MIT LL |
| July 21 | Introduction to Convolutional Neural Networks | |
| July 22 | Convolutional Neural Networks (Continued) | |
| July 23 | Structure from Motion and Georeferencing imagery | |
| July 24 | Additional Deep Learning for Image Processing Guest: TBD | |
| Week 4 | July 27 | Decision Making for HADR Applications Guest: Mischa Shattuck, MIT LL |
| July 28 | Optimization, graphs, and networks | |
| July 29 | Final Event Day 1 (Preparation) | |
| July 30 | Final Event Day 2 (Simulation Day 1) | |
| July 31 | Final Event Day 3 (Simulation Day 2) |