Data Analysis in Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences

3 units

Develop skills in data processing, analysis, and problem solving as applied to typical datasets in earth, environmental, and planetary sciences. Students will acquire an understanding of the statistical analysis of data, observational noise, and error propagation, as well as the uncertainty and uniqueness of solutions. Development of techniques for solution of linear and non-linear inverse problems, signal processing, smoothing and filtering of data, removal of noise and unwanted effects, factor analysis, and other statistical methods. Allow students to gain experience applying these techniques to datasets in their research areas.