University of Leeds - Aeroecology: Exploring Biodiversity with Radar
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Aeroecology: Exploring Biodiversity with Radar at Coursera Overview
Duration | 10 hours |
Start from | Start Now |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Official Website | Explore Free Course  |
Credential | Certificate |
Aeroecology: Exploring Biodiversity with Radar at Coursera Highlights
- Earn a Certificate upon completion
Aeroecology: Exploring Biodiversity with Radar at Coursera Course details
- Learn how aeroecology, a discipline that studies airborne life forms, has been revolutionised with the use of radar with this unique course
- This course is designed to help scientists, researchers as well as ecology enthusiasts to develop skills in using radar to explore biodiversity
- 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
Aeroecology: Exploring Biodiversity with Radar at Coursera Curriculum
Week 1 - Fundamentals of radar science and biodiversity research
The story of how a military technology produced surprising scientific applications
How does radar work?
What is the current state of the art in radar science?
Investigating biodiversity trends
Introduction to biodiversity methods
How can radar measure and monitor biodiversity?
What biodiversity can the radar visualise?
What biodiversity can radar not visualise?
Welcome to Aeroecology: Exploring Biodiversity with Radar
About your course and tutor
What is "aeroecology"?
Lesson 1 overview
Exploring radar methods
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Lesson 2 overview
How does an eco-system collapse?
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Lesson 3 overview
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Week 2 - Advantages and limits of aeroecology in context
Why is diversity important?
Introduction to the classification of "bioscatterers"
Taxonomic limits of radar
Why is abundance important?
Introduction to the quantification of "bioscatterers"
How might aeroecology transform biological and agricultural research?
A critical reflection on aeroecology
Lesson 4 overview
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Lesson 5 overview
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Lesson 6 overview
How might aeroecology transform environmental regulation and policy?
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