CTEMPS offers 1-day, 2-day and week-long courses on distributed temperature sensing, wireless autonomous sensing, and unmanned aerial systems. In addition, researchers and their students are welcome to visit the University of Nevada, Reno and the Oregon State University OPEnS Lab for "hands-on" training prior to instrument delivery. For announcements on upcoming short courses, see the Short Course Schedule below. To inquire or arrange a campus visit, please contact Adrian Harpold.
December 8, 2024: Annual hands-on training focusing on Distributed Fiber Optic Sensing Systems.
August 13-17, 2024: Hands-on Workshop on Fiber-Optic Distributed Acoustic and Temperature Sensing for Interdisciplinary Earth Scientists. Fiber-Optic_Distributed_Acoustic_and_Temperature_Sensing. Application deadline is April 10.
December 11, 2022 06:00 - 14:00 PST: SCIWS27 - Fiber Optic Sensing in the Earth Sciences: Timelapse Modeling Strategies for Soil Moisture, Geomorphic Transport, Tidal Processes, Polar Processes, and Oceanography. Registration through AGU Fall Meeting.
December 11, 2021: 10 am - 4 pm CST: SCIWS29: Enhanced Access of Distributed Temperature Sensing for Early Career Scientists. Register through AGU.
Videos
December 12, 2021: 8 am - 4 pm CST: SCIWS17: Distributed Acoustic Sensing in Earth Sciences: From Novice to Cutting Edge. Register through AGU.
September 20 - 22, 2021: 9 am - 12 pm PT. Virtual Workshop. Open Hydrological Sensor Technologies: DIY Stream Sensor Networks. Register through CUAHSI by August 30 at 11:59 PM ET.
December 2, 2020: 13:00 - 19:00 EST. Online. SCIWS4 Applications and Advances in Distributed Temperature Sensing (DTS) for Earth and Space Sciences. Registration through AGU Fall Meeting. Final Schedule.
Videos
December 1, 2020: 13:00 - 19:00 PST. Online. SCIWS2 AGU Workshop on Distributed Acoustic Sensing. Registration through AGU Fall Meeting.
August 31 - September 3, 2020: 9 AM – 12 PM PT, 12 PM – 3 PM ET. Online. Virtual Hand-Made Stream Sensor Networks Workshop: Build your own Smart Rock Sensor at Home! Registration Deadline: July 9, 2020. Registration through CUAHSI.
December 11, 2019, 12:30 - 13:30 - San Francisco, CA - Do-It-Together, International Community Around Openly Published Environmental Sensing. Town Hall information. Registration through AGU Fall Meeting.
December 10, 2019, 8 - 12:20 - San Francisco, CA - Do-It-Yourself Open-Source Environmental Sensing. Workshop information. Registration through AGU Fall Meeting.
December 8, 2019 - San Francisco, CA - Distributed Acoustic Sensing: Principles, Data Processing, and Applications in Earth Sciences. Workshop information. Registration through AGU Fall Meeting.
December 7, 2019 - San Francisco, CA - Applications and Advances in Distributed Temperature Sensing for Earth and Space Sciences. Workshop information. Registration through AGU Fall Meeting.
October 8-12, 2019 - Castle Thurnau, Germany - Fiber Optic Sensing in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (FOSES). Workshop information and registration.
December 9, 2018 - Grand Hyatt, Washington, D.C. - Distributed Acoustic Sensing: Principles and Case Studies. Workshop information and registration.
August 1-2, 2018 - USFWS NCTC, Washington, D.C.
Two day short courses in DTS and sUAS. Workshop information and registration.
July 12-13, 2018 - Gleneden Beach, Oregon.
Two day workshop: Integrating Science Needs with Advanced Seafloor Sensor Engineering to Provide Early Warning of Geohazards: Visioning Workshop and Roadmap for the Future. Workshop information and registration. Agenda here.
December 9-10, 2017 - Stennis Space Center, Mississippi (near New Orleans, before the AGU Fall Meeting).
The Cutting Edge of Temperature: Distributed Temerature Measurement in Earth Sciences. Workshop announcement, flier and registration.
October 18-21, 2017 - Reno, Nevada.
The First UAS Hands-on Open Format Training Session. Workshop announcement, schedule and registration.
March 18, 2017 - ETH, Zurich, Switzerland
One day short course on DTS
December 10-11, 2016 - Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
Two-day short course in Temperature and Acoustic Sensing with Fiber Optics. Workshop announcement & schedule.
December 11th, 2016 - Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
1 day training: Scientific Sensing using Unmanned Aircraft Systems. Workshop announcement & schedule.
December 13th, 2015 - Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
1 day training: Scientific Sensing using Unmanned Aircraft Systems AirCTEMPs. Workshop annoucement & Schedule
December 12-13, 2015 - Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
Two-day short course. Workshop announcement & schedule
August 4, 2015 - Helsinki - Geological Survey of Finland
One day short course on DTS.
June 23-25, 2015 - Air CTEMPS course at Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
Two-and-a-half-day course in Unmanned Aerial Systems in Earth Science.
July 30-August 3, 2014 - John Day, Oregon
Multi-day DTS short course
December 7-8, 2013 - Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
Two-day short course - Workshop Announcement & Schedule
July 21-23, 2013 - Luxembourg
Fiber Optic Distributed Temperature Sensing (DTS) and Thermal IR imagery for Hydro-ecological Characterization
December 1-2, 2012 - Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
Two-day short course on DTS.
July 14-15 & 19-20, 2012 - UCAR, Boulder, CO
Two sessions of two-day short courses in conjunction with the CUAHSI 3rd Biennial Colloquium on Hydrologic Science and Engineering.
April 23-24, 2012 - Beijing, China
Two-day short course on DTS.
December 3, 2011 - Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
One-day short course on DTS.
December 11, 2010 - Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
One-day short course.
July 22, 2010 - Boulder, Colorado
One-day short course to follow the CUAHSI Biannual Science meeting.
January 11-15, 2010 - Santiago, Chile
Five-day workshop on the San Joaquin Campus of the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile.
December 12, 2009 - Berkeley, California
One-day short course.
2008 - HJ Andrews, Oregon
2007 - HJ Andrews, Oregon
CTEMPs offers instructional videos to train instrument users on how to assemble field deployable fiber-optic distributed temperature sensing systems (FD-DTS). While not yet nominated for the Academy Awards, these videos will help you assemble and operate CTEMPs instruments.
We recommend that you view these videos BEFORE heading to the field and with the instruments unpacked in your laboratory to thoroughly familiarize yourself with their assembly and operation. Please head over to our YouTube channel "ctemps" for access to all of our instructional videos and other resource videos: CTEMPS. You can also find recordings of past workshops on DTS, UAS and DAS on our channel.
The CTEMPs MATLAB® DTS Toolbox provides simple graphical user interfaces (GUIs) to completely process DTS field data from start to finish. Users can compile raw data files collected by either Sensornet or Silixa DTS systems and calibrate the temperature data in a few simple steps. The User Guide outlines the contents of the toolbox and provide basic instruction for using the toolbox. A comprehensive sample data set with step-by-step instruction has been included.
These ‘beta’ GUIs require specific data files and formats. Files not matching expected formats may cause processing errors. The Guide contains specific details for how data may need to be formatted in the event of processing errors. Documentation for each GUI is provided in the manual. These scripts were developed to be used with instruments leased through CTEMPs and have been tested on sample data sets collected from these instruments. Your feedback and recommendations are welcome.
This toolbox is the result of the hard work of both Mark Hausner and Scott Kobs.
DTSGUI is a public-domain software tool to import, manage, parse/cull, georeference, analyze and visualize fiber-optic distributed temperature sensor (FO-DTS) data.
Bas des Tombe, Bart Schilperoort, and Mark Bakker from Delft University of Technology have developed a Python based toolbox for calibrating DTS.
Detailed description of the calibration procedure:
des Tombe, B., Schilperoort, B. and Bakker, M., 2020. Estimation of Temperature and Associated Uncertainty from Fiber-Optic Raman-Spectrum Distributed Temperature Sensing. Sensors, 20(8), p.2235.
pyfocs is the University of Bayreuth Micrometeorology python library for processing Fiber Optic Distributed Sensing (FODS) data. It is intended to streamline the handling of large and long-term DTS setups.