In July 2024 the ESA EO AFRICA R&D Facility launched in collaboration with AUC a call for higher education teaching grants to develop curricula in an Earth Observation topic related to Water and Food Security. As outcome of the call, five proposals from African universities from Ethiopia, Cameroon, Kenya, Nigeria and Benin have been selected …
From October 30 to November 6, 2024, the Science Hub of the European Space Agency (ESA) in Frascati, Italy, hosted an international workshop titled Grounding Lagrangian particles in satellite-derived oceanic flow fields. Organized in the framework of the 4DMED-Sea project the event convened 16 participants, including 11 senior experts and 5 early-career researchers from France, …
The ESA Green Transition Information Factories initiative enables the development of an ecosystem of EO-integrated solutions addressing key needs and challenges for the green transition and climate adaptation. It leverages Earth Observation data products, together with geospatial and interdisciplinary data, advanced analytics and cloud services to co-develop user-driven capabilities and services. Through the ongoing GTIF-AT and …
This ITT is part of the Ocean Science Cluster and contributes to the joint EC-ESA Earth System Science Initiative launched in February 2020 by the European Space Agency and the European Commission (EC) Directorate-General for Research and Innovation (DG RTD) to jointly advance Earth System Science and its response to the global challenges that society …
Convened under the theme Peace with Nature, the 16th Conference of the Parties of the CBD (CBD COP16) held in Cali (Colombia) on 21 Oct – 1 Nov 2024, was the first COP since the adoption of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KM-GBF) at COP15 in Montreal where delegates agreed on an ambitious pathway to …
The African Research Fellows join ESA through the Earth Observation for African Framework for Research, Innovation, Communities and Applications Initiative (EO AFRICA), a program dedicated to advancing sustainable Earth Observation (EO) and space technology across Africa in collaboration with the African Union Commission. Through this unique opportunity, fellows are equipped to tackle Africa’s pressing food …
The Earth Observation (EO) community commonly depends on specialised software solution such as so called EO toolboxes which provide specialised and often unique functionality to carry out specific analytics or sensor-specific data manipulations. Several of these EO toolboxes have been successful in providing critical functionality and in terms of adoption and uptake in the user …
The European Space Agency (ESA) is calling on universities offering Master’s or PhD programs in Earth Observation, Environmental Science, Remote Sensing, and related fields to apply for Science Challenges 2025 at ESA’s ESRIN facility in Frascati, Italy. Selected students will experience a 1-week, hands-on workshop, exploring cutting-edge EO technologies, collaborating with ESA experts, and showcasing …
Broad scope effort, under the umbrella of the EC-ESA joint Earth System Science Initiative (ESSI), to address specific activities in the land-ocean interface, with a specific interest on coastal carbon and dynamics, and also on the deposition of pyrogenic aerosols and their impact on ocean biology. Distinctive focus on high-resolution and multi-modal (EO, modelling, in-situ …
Global efforts to improve forest monitoring took a significant step forward at the recent Informed use of biomass maps in MRV procedures workshop held in Potsdam, Germany, from 23 to 25 October 2024. Organized by the Global Forest Observations Initiative (GFOI) and hosted by the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ-Potsdam) with support from the European …
