Become an expert of SNAP with this step-by-step video course.

Learn SNAP using EU flagship COPERNICUS satellite program

Master Europe's most innovative satellite infrastructure!

This video course is a detailed walkthrough guide of the European Space Agency (ESA) Sentinels Application Platform (SNAP) software.

A common architecture for all Sentinel Toolboxes is being jointly developed by Brockmann Consult, Array Systems Computing and C-S called the Sentinel Application Platform (SNAP).

The SNAP architecture is ideal for Earth Observation processing and analysis due the following technological innovations: Extensibility, Portability, Modular Rich Client Platform, Generic EO Data Abstraction, Tiled Memory Management, and a Graph Processing Framework.

This video course is structured in a way to get easily familiar with the software. Real Sentinel-1 (SAR) and Sentinel-2 (Optical) images are used during the entire course.

The functionality and modules of SNAP are applied on these images in order to understand exactly how to operate SNAP!

Just follow the steps described in each video course and you will become a SNAP expert in a fraction of time!

Enhance your knowledge of Earth Observation and Remote Sensing along the way!

Check out the curriculum for the detailed contents of this video course! 

It is a remote sensing online course that you should not miss!

Learn SNAP and capture the opportunities

According to the "Study to examine the socio-economic impact of Copernicus in the EU", more than 10.000 related jobs will be needed! Become an expert on SNAP now and tap to the fast growing Earth Observation Downstream market!
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Course curriculum

  1. 01

    • Lesson 1: Download Sentinel-1 SAR Images from ESA's SchiHub portal

    • Lesson 2: Download Sentinel-2 Multispectral Images from ESA's SchiHub portal
  2. 02

    • Lesson 3: Open Sentinel-1 SAR images

    • Lesson 4: Open Sentinel-2 Optical images

    • Lesson 5: ESA's SNAP software controls (Part 1)

    • Lesson 6: ESA's SNAP software controls (Part 2)

    • Lesson 7: Profile Plot Control

    • Lesson 8: Scatter Plot Control

    • Lesson 9: Spectral Plot Control

    • Lesson 10: Compute Statistic of the data
  3. 03

    • Lesson 11: Display RGB composites and Histogram manipulation

    • Lesson 12: Histogram Manipulation (Part 1)

    • Lesson 13: Histogram Manipulation (Part 2)

    • Lesson 14: SNAP multiple data views
  4. 04

    • Lesson 15: Band Filtering

    • Lesson 16: Create Terrain Mask using Sentinel-2 images

    • Lesson 17: Calculate Mask Statistics

    • Lesson 18: Compute Fractional Coverage of Land & Sea

    • Lesson 19: Mask out Land or Sea from Sentinel-2 images

    • Lesson 20: Calculate Texture on Raster Data

    • Lesson 21: Raster Band Math Operator

    • Lesson 22: Principal Component Analysis (PCA)

    • Lesson 23: Unsupervised Classification of Sentinel-2 images
  5. 05

    • Lesson 24: Subsetting an image

    • Lesson 25: Resampling Raster Data

    • Lesson 26: Reprojecting Raster Data
  6. 06

    • Lesson 27: SAR Apply Orbit File

    • Lesson 28: SAR Single Speckle Filtering

    • Lesson 29: SAR Radiometric Calibration

    • Lesson 30: SAR Geometric Terrain Correction
  7. 07

    • Lesson 31: SAR Application: Oil Spill Detection

    • Lesson 32: SAR Application: Wind Field Estimation

    • Lesson 33: SAR Application: Ship Detection

    • Lesson 34: SAR Application: Urban Despeckle
  8. 08

    • Lesson 35: Sentinel-2 Spectral Unmixing

    • Lesson 36: Sentinel-2 Radiance to Reflectance
  9. 09

    • Lesson 37: Thematic Land Processing: Biophysical Processor

    • Lesson 38: Thematic Land Processing: Soil Radiometric Indices

    • Lesson 39: Thematic Land Processing: Water Radiometric Indices

    • Lesson 40: Thematic Land Processing: Vegetation Radiometric Indices

What will you learn?

  • Basic SNAP data handling operations

  • Optical Image Processing

  • Sentinel-1 Ocean and Urban Applications

  • Raster data management

  • RADAR Image Processing

  • Sentinel-2 Thematic Land and Sea Processing

Any prerequisites?

  • Basic knowledge of Earth Observation or GIS is optional

  • A simple laptop or desktop computer to follow the course's steps

Student Profile?

  • Under/post graduate students

  • Professionals and Companies

  • Master students and PhD candidates

  • Researchers and Academics

Some more information

  • Certificates of Completion

    After you successfully finish the course, you can claim your Certificate of Completion with NO extra cost! You can add it to your CV, LinkedIn profile etc

  • Available at any time! Study at your best time

    We know hard it is to acquire new skills. All our courses are self paced.

  • Online and always accessible

    Even when you finish the course and you get your certificate, you will still have access to course contents! Every time an Instructor makes an update you will be notified and be able to watch it for FREE

Instructor(s)

Dimitris Sykas is a Remote Sensing and Surveying Engineer with a Ph.D. in hyperspectral remote sensing from the National Technical University of Athens (2016). He has spent fifteen years turning satellite data into operational products: at the NTUA Remote Sensing Laboratory, at Planetek Hellas as Senior EO Engineer, at Neuropublic building machine-learning models for smart farming and CAP monitoring, as a postdoctoral researcher on deep learning for agricultural Earth observation at the National Observatory of Athens, and as CTO of the cloudeo group. In 2024 he co-founded GOVADI, an Athens-based company building sovereign, on-premises AI systems for the Greek public sector and large enterprises, where he leads the technical direction of its products: Greek speech-to-text, retrieval-augmented generation with local models and embedding stores, document OCR and PII anonymisation. He has taken part in more than 25 funded EU and ESA projects, has authored over 23 peer-reviewed publications in remote sensing, and holds an international patent in hyperspectral data compression. He founded GEO University to bring hands-on GIS and Earth observation training online.

Dimitris Sykas

Remote Sensing Engineer, Ph.D. · Co-founder and Director, GOVADI · Founder, GEO University

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