Yale Remote Sensing Accelerator — June 2025

The Yale Center for Geospatial Solutions and the Yale Library are pleased to launch the Yale Remote Sensing Accelerator, a new training program coming in June 2025. This week-long program (June 9–13) offers direct instruction and hands-on experience in processing satellite imagery.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES
 

• Develop fundamental GIS skills including use of various data types, data management, attribute tables, and coordinate systems.         
• Use ArcGIS Pro to visualize and analyze imagery.  
• Use intermediate-level raster analysis techniques. Use USGS Earth Explorer to download imagery.  
• Understand criteria for choosing satellite imagery. 
• Use USGS Earth Explorer to select and download imagery.  
• Gain a basic understanding of the electro-magnetic spectrum. 
• Practice good data management. 
• Understand spectral signatures and compute spectral indices. 
• Perform image classification in ArcGIS Pro and evaluate its output.
• Calculate and visualize change over time.   
• Visualize imagery in 3D.

* Trainees who successfully complete the program will receive a certificate.

PRE-REQUISITES
Participants must have basic familiarity with Windows file operations. Use of ArcGIS Pro will be taught in the first two days of the course.

LEAD INSTRUCTOR

Jill Kelly is the primary GIS instructor at the Yale School of Public Health. She has also taught GIS at Yale School of Architecture, the Government Department of Harvard University, Harvard’s Center for Geographic Analysis, and the University of Pennsylvania’s Environmental Studies Program. Her research focuses on the development and application of GIS and other spatial methods to study environmental phenomena. Jill is a geospatial generalist with interests in morphology, areal aggregation, and raster analysis. Her dissertation research explored the spatial aggregation of lidar measurements in predicting spatially explicit estimates of forest biomass.

LOGISTICS

• DATES: June 9–13, 2025
• TIME: 9:30AM–5:00PM EDT
• LOCATION: Hybrid–Marx Library Classroom (C27) and via Zoom (link sent to registrants)

[APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS]
* Open to Yale members only

• APPLICATION DEADLINE: Sunday, May 18, 2025.

After the deadline, please add your name to the interest list if you want to be informed about future Yale Remote Sensing accelerators.

• NOTIFICATION DATE: Week of May 19, 2025

If selected applicants are no longer available to join the accelerator, we will offer the spots to the next applicant(s) on the waitlist.

ACCESS TO COMPUTERS

• In-person attendees: Lab computers will be provided.
• Zoom attendees: If you currently do not have access to ArcGIS Pro, please prepare in advance:

1. PC users: Install ArcGIS Pro on your PC
2. Mac users: Use MyApps Yale GIS (Yale's virtual machines)
    

Need Help?

The geospatial teams from the Yale Library and the Yale Center for Geospatial Solutions are available to assist in identifying relevant data in appropriate format. If you need support, please schedule a geospatial consultation.

For any questions about this training, feel free to email: geospatialhelp@yale.edu