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Water cycle changes characterised from atmospheric moisture recycling (WEATHER)

Prime company: UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER (GB)

Living Planet Fellowship research project carried out by Tim Trent. Water vapour is an essential greenhouse gas in the Earth climate system, acting as a natural feedback mechanism for carbon dioxide forcing. Critical to the development of cloud and precipitation, water vapour also has a significant influence and impact on surface fluxes and radiative balance. Water vapour …

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10th ESA Advanced Training Course on Land Remote Sensing 2021

September 20, 2021 - September 24, 2021
Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering (FGG), Jamova cesta 2
Ljubljana, Slovenia

EO and AI for Forestry   This course was dedicated to training the next generation of Earth Observation (EO) scientists and experts working in forestry domain to exploit data from EO missions (e.g. the Copernicus Sentinels) and use Artificial Intelligence (AI) for science and applications development. The training included theory and hands-on sessions on the …

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Sentinel Hub custom script contest: urban growth in Africa

This special edition of the Sentinel Hub Custom Script Contest started on 3rd May 2021 and will end at midnight on 5th September 2021. The contest focuses on Africa and aims to demonstrate the power of a deep multi-temporal and multi-resolution data cube combined from Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2 and Landsat. Additionally, the area of Dakar, Senegal, …

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EO AFRICA Research and Development Facility

Prime company: UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE (NL)

The flagship of the EO AFRICA initiative is the EO AFRICA R&D Facility. The overarching goal of the Facility is to foster an African-European R&D collaboration enabling an active research community and creative innovation processes for continuous development of EO capabilities in Africa. The R&D Facility will review the African EO research challenges and issue …

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HYDROSPACE-GEOGloWS 2021

June 7, 2021 - June 11, 2021
ESA-ESRIN, Largo Galileo Galilei, 1
Frascati, RM 00044 Italy

This HYDROSPACE-GEOGloWS joint conference represents an opportunity to address key surface water issues including: What are the new key science questions? What are the new challenges and how should we address them? What are the new algorithms and the new advancements allowing the use of satellite data with the most advanced models in particular for …

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Fringe 2021

May 31, 2021 - June 4, 2021

  This event will take place online.   Fringe 2021 is a free workshop, focused on “Advances in the Science and Applications of SAR Interferometry and Sentinel-1 InSAR” open to scientists, students and Sentinel-1 data users, as well as representatives from national, European and international space agencies and value adding industries. Its main objectives are: …

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POLINSAR 2021 – 10th International Workshop on Science and Applications of SAR Polarimetry and Polarimetric Interferometry

April 26, 2021 - April 30, 2021

This event will take place online. The workshops will be held on the following dates: 10th POLINSAR Workshop: 26-30 April 2021 The event will be accompanied by two side events: – 6th Advanced Course on Radar Polarimetry (dates to be confirmed) – Second Biomass Retrieval Inter-comparison eXperiment – BRIX-2 (dates to be confirmed) The Workshops …

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Capacity building EO Africa Partnership R&D

KO of the EO Africa RD Facility

On March 1st it was held the Kick Off meeting of the EO Africa R&D Facility, which will be led by the Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), University of Twente. The overarching goal of the EO AFRICA RD Facility is to foster an African-European RD collaboration enabling an active research community and …

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Capacity building EO Africa

Virtual Training and VMs delivered to African Institutions

In October 2020 ESA contributed to a training event on EO for seasonal agriculture monitoring in North Africa. The virtual training was organised by the African Regional Centre for Space Science and Technology Education in French Language (CRASTE-LF), in collaboration with OSS North Africa Consortium and GMES&AFRICA partners. More than 20 experts from 8 different …

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Capacity building EO Africa

18 years of TIGER activities

TIGER was launched by ESA in 2002 as a direct response to a call for action in Africa stressed by the Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD). The objective of the initiative was to assist African countries to overcome problems faced in the collection, analysis and use of water related geo-information by exploiting the …

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